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Autore: | Smith James Patterson |
Titolo: | Hurricane Katrina [[electronic resource] ] : the Mississippi story / / James Patterson Smith |
Pubblicazione: | Jackson, Miss., : University Press of Mississippi, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina: | 976.206/2 |
Soggetto topico: | Disaster relief - Mississippi |
Disaster victims - Mississippi | |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 | |
Hurricanes - Social aspects - Mississippi | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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-mile stretch of unprotected Mississippi towns and cities. James Patterson Smith takes us through life and death accounts of storm day, August 29, 2005, and the precarious days of food |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hurricane Katrina |
ISBN: | 1-280-12753-8 |
9786613531414 | |
1-61703-024-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910462167603321 |
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