Title:
Environmental disaster in the Gulf South : two centuries of catastrophe, risk, and resilience / edited by Cindy Ermus ; afterword by Ted Steinberg.
Author:
Ermus, Cindy, 1979- editor.
Steinberg, Theodore, 1961- writer of afterword.
Genre:
Publication Information:
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2018]
©2018
Call Number:
F296 .E58 2018
ISBN:
9780807167106
Series:
The natural world of the Gulf South
Natural world of the Gulf South.
Physical Description:
viii, 206 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Satire and politics in the New Orleans flood of 1849 / Epidemics, empire, and eradication: global public health and yellow fever control in New Orleans / The complete story of the Galveston horror: trauma, history, and the great storm of 1900 / The 1928 hurricane in Florida and the wider Caribbean / Swamp things: invasive species as environmental disaster in the Gulf South / Political-ecological emergence of space and vulnerability in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans / Katrina is coming to your city: storm- and flood-defense infrastructures in risk society
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