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Mark Monmonier

Cartographies of Danger

Mapping Hazards in America

378 pages, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 97 maps  6 x 9  © 1997

Cloth $25.00

ISBN: 9780226534183   Published May 1997

Paper $30.00

ISBN: 9780226534190   Published October 1998

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ISBN: 9780226534299

Related links: Read Monmonier's list of ten risky places.

Preface
Acknowledgments
1: Map Scale, Danger Zones, and Safe Places
2: Shaky Preparations
3: Lavas and Other Strangers
4: Uncertain Shores
5: Death Tracks
6: Floodplains, by Definition...
7: Subterranean Poisons
8: Ill Winds
9: Short-Lived Daughters and ELF Fields
10: Nuclear Nightmares
11: Imagining Vulnerability
12: Crimescapes
13: John Snow's Legacy
14: Emerging Cartographies of Danger
Notes
Index
Subjects


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