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The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

By David , Welky

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780226887166, 0226887162
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3525622 bytes)
Pages
xiv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1933-1939;Floods;Disaster relief;History;Floods --Disaster relief--United States--History--20th cent

Description

Timed to coincide with the flood's 75th anniversary, "The Thousand-Year Flood" is the first comprehensive history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. Welky first shows how decades of settlement put Ohio Valley farms and towns at risk and how politicians and planners repeatedly ignored the dangers. Then he tells the gripping story of the river's inexorable rise.;The river -- Roosevelt and the rivers -- Moving out, moving in -- Black Sunday -- Send a boat! -- Those who stayed -- The exiles -- Coming home -- Politics -- Moving? -- Legacies.

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