Aberfan: Government and Disasters

by Martin Johnes, Iain Mclean. 274 pgs.

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Contributors:

Martin Johnes, Iain Mclean

Publisher:

Welsh Academic Press

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, Wales

Publication Year:

2000

Table of contents

	CONTENTS
	FOREWORD	vi
	PREFACE	vii
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	xii
	ABBREVIATIONS	xv
	THE LAST DAY BEFORE HALF-TERM	1
	ON MOLES AND THE HABITS OF BIRDS: THE UNPOLITICS OF ABERFAN	23
	UNEASY RELATIONSHIPS: THE ABERFAN DISASTER, MERTHYR TYDFIL COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL AND LOCAL POLITICS	61
	ABERFAN AND OTHER DISASTERS	84
	THE MANAGEMENT OF TRAUMA	102
	REGULATING GIFTS OF GENEROSITY: DISASTER FUNDS	134
	THE PRICE OF LIFE: BEREAVEMENT DAMAGES	160
	HOLDING CORPORATIONS TO ACCOUNT	183
	GOVERNMENT AND DISASTER	220
	APPENDIX	241
	BIBLIOGRAPHY	242
	INDEX	267

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