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Autore |
Smith James Patterson |
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Titolo |
Hurricane Katrina [[electronic resource] ] : the Mississippi story / / James Patterson Smith |
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Jackson, Miss., : University Press of Mississippi, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-12753-8 |
9786613531414 |
1-61703-024-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Disaster relief - Mississippi |
Disaster victims - Mississippi |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 |
Hurricanes - Social aspects - Mississippi |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: Katrina Impacts Mississippi: ""This Is Our Tsunami""; Chapter Two: Havoc in the Aftermath; Chapter Three: Hitching Up Our Britches: Strength at the Bottom in a World Turned Upside Down; Chapter Four: Rising from Shell Shock: Sources of Resilience in State and Local Government; Chapter Five: Digging Out in a Whirlwind of Contract Controversy; Chapter Six: The Grace of Volunteers; Chapter Seven: The Long Wait for Housing; Chapter Eight: Disaster and Recovery in the Schools; Chapter Nine: The Great Red-Tape Battle for Public Buildings |
Chapter Ten: Faith, Hope, and Jobs: Progress and Frustration for the Business RecoveryChapter Eleven: Conclusion: A Persevering People; Notes; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, it tells the dramatic but underreported story of a people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the eye wall and powerful northeast quadrant of the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across a seventy-five- |
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