Rising tide: the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America
In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months. Rising Tide is the story of this forgotten event, the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known. But it is not simply a tale of disaster. The flood transformed part of the nation and had a major cultural and political impact on the rest. Rising Tide is an American epic about science, race, honor, politics, and society Rising Tide begins in the nineteenth century, when the first serious attempts to control the river began. The story focuses on engineers James Eads and Andrew Humphreys, who hated each other. Out of the collision of their personalities and their theories came a compromise river policy that would lead to the disaster of the 1927 flood yet would also allow the cultivation of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and create wealth and aristocracy, as well as a whole culture. In the end, the flood had indeed changed the face of America, leading to the most comprehensive legislation the government had ever enacted, touching the entire Mississippi valley from Pennsylvania to Montana. In its aftermath was laid the foundation for the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Beschreibung: | 524, [16] S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0684810468 |
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| spelling | Barry, John M. Verfasser aut Rising tide the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America John M. Barry New York Simon & Schuster 1997 524, [16] S. Ill., Kt. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months. Rising Tide is the story of this forgotten event, the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known. But it is not simply a tale of disaster. The flood transformed part of the nation and had a major cultural and political impact on the rest. Rising Tide is an American epic about science, race, honor, politics, and society Rising Tide begins in the nineteenth century, when the first serious attempts to control the river began. The story focuses on engineers James Eads and Andrew Humphreys, who hated each other. Out of the collision of their personalities and their theories came a compromise river policy that would lead to the disaster of the 1927 flood yet would also allow the cultivation of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and create wealth and aristocracy, as well as a whole culture. In the end, the flood had indeed changed the face of America, leading to the most comprehensive legislation the government had ever enacted, touching the entire Mississippi valley from Pennsylvania to Montana. In its aftermath was laid the foundation for the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt Eads, James Buchanan <1820-1887> Humphreys, A. A <1810-1883> (Andrew Atkinson) Percy family Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1927 gnd rswk-swf Gevolgen gtt Mississippi (rivier) gtt Overstromingen gtt Politieke aspecten gtt Geschichte Politik Flood control Mississippi River History Floods Mississippi River Valley History 20th century Überschwemmung (DE-588)4186634-4 gnd rswk-swf Mississippi River Valley History 1865- Mississippi Fluss (DE-588)4039589-3 gnd rswk-swf Mississippi Fluss (DE-588)4039589-3 g Überschwemmung (DE-588)4186634-4 s Geschichte 1927 z DE-604 |
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| title | Rising tide the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America |
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| title_full | Rising tide the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America John M. Barry |
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