Katrina : A History, 1915-2015 /
The Katrina disaster was not a weather event of summer 2005. It was a disaster a century in the making, a product of lessons learned from previous floods, corporate and government decision making, and the political economy of the United States at large. New Orleans's history is America's h...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I
- 1. How to Sink New Orleans: Controlling Floods, Oil, and States' Rights, 1927-1965
- 2. Help!: Hurricane Betsy and the Politics of Disaster in the Lower Ninth Ward, 1965-1967
- 3. The New New Orleans: Louisiana Grows and Shrinks, 1967-2005
- PART II
- 4. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?: Hurricane Katrina, August-September 2005
- 5. Rebuilding the Land of Dreams: 2005-2015
- Epilogue:The End of Empire, Louisiana
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX