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Moving from a discussion of the May 1938 flood to a discussion of floods, famines, and other war-related disasters in general, Lary stresses the useful point that contemporary plans to meet disasters today disasterology--"surely a contender for economics as the original dismal science" p. 166 rarely take into consideration disasters occurring as part of war.
Book Review: Selden and So, eds., _War and State Terrorism: The United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century_. Michael Turton 2005
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