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Changes in the air : hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the present / / Eleonora Rohland



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Autore: Rohland Eleonora Visualizza persona
Titolo: Changes in the air : hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the present / / Eleonora Rohland Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn, , 2019
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 pages)
Disciplina: 363.34/9220976335
Soggetto topico: Hurricanes - Louisiana - New Orleans - History
Hurricanes - Social aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans
Soggetto geografico: New Orleans (La.) History
Soggetto non controllato: Hurricanes, New Orleans, Environmental History, Environmental Studies, Urban Studies, American History, Adaptive Practices
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Hurricane Katrina and the Future of the Past -- Chapter 1. Adaptation, Knowledge, and Hurricanes in History -- Chapter 2. Environmental Learning and Path Dependence -- Chapter 3. Moving out of Harm’s Way -- Chapter 4. Disaster and Social Order -- Chapter 5. Hurricanes vs. “Mass Idleness” -- Chapter 6. To Mandate or Not to Mandate . . . -- Chapter 7. Adaptive Practices, Past and Present -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entwined between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River has been lashed by powerful Gulf storms.  Time and again, these hurricanes have wrought immeasurable loss and devastation, spurring reinvention and ingenuity on the part of inhabitants. Changes in the Air offers a rich and thoroughly researched history of how hurricanes have shaped and reshaped New Orleans from the colonial era to the present day, focusing on how its residents have adapted to a uniquely unpredictable and destructive environment across more than three centuries.
Titolo autorizzato: Changes in the air  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78533-932-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826599603321
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