Stages of Emergency – Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense
Autor Tracy C. Davisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iun 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822339700
ISBN-10: 0822339706
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 58 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 158 x 233 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822339706
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 58 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 158 x 233 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Recenzii
Tracy C. Daviss highly original cross-cultural study represents the most perceptive analysis of Cold Warera civil-defense theory and practice written to date. As a theater scholar, she focuses on the rehearsal and performative aspects of civil-defense planning in a way that is brilliantly illuminating.Paul Boyer, author of By the Bombs Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic AgeTracy C. Davis is a leading performance historian, and in Stages of Emergency she applies her considerable skills to a kind of play that permeated the consciousness and determined much social reality in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom during the Cold War. The story she tells, and her analysis of it, goes to the very heart of what these societies were and are.Richard Schechner, author of Performance Studies: An Introduction
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"Tracy C. Davis is a leading performance historian, and in "Stages of Emergency "she applies her considerable skills to a kind of 'play' that permeated the consciousness and determined much social reality in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom during the Cold War. The story she tells, and her analysis of it, goes to the very heart of what these societies were and are."--Richard Schechner, author of "Performance Studies: An Introduction"
Cuprins
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
Part I: Directing Apocalypse
1. Civil Defense Concepts and Planning 9
2. Rehearsals for Nuclear War 58
Part II: Act Your Part: The Private Citizen on the Public Stage
3. The Psychology of Vulnerability 105
4. Sheltering 127
5. Get Out of Town! 158
6. Communications 181
7. Acting Out Injury 198
Part III: Covert Stages: The "Public Sector" Rehearses in Private
8. Crisis Play 223
9. International Play 247
10. Disaster Welfare 261
11. Continuity of Government 287
12. Computer Play 312
Afterword:Dismantling Civil Defense 331
Appendix: Cold War and Civil Defense Time Line 339
Notes 351
Works Cited 401
Index 429
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
Part I: Directing Apocalypse
1. Civil Defense Concepts and Planning 9
2. Rehearsals for Nuclear War 58
Part II: Act Your Part: The Private Citizen on the Public Stage
3. The Psychology of Vulnerability 105
4. Sheltering 127
5. Get Out of Town! 158
6. Communications 181
7. Acting Out Injury 198
Part III: Covert Stages: The "Public Sector" Rehearses in Private
8. Crisis Play 223
9. International Play 247
10. Disaster Welfare 261
11. Continuity of Government 287
12. Computer Play 312
Afterword:Dismantling Civil Defense 331
Appendix: Cold War and Civil Defense Time Line 339
Notes 351
Works Cited 401
Index 429
Descriere
Cultural history of the nuclear civil defence exercises in the US, Canada, and the UK, which emphasizes the performative aspect of the staged drills and evacuations