Thousand-Year Flood - The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

Informationen zum Autor David Welky is associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas and the author of Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression and The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II. Klappentext Timed to coincide with the flood's 75th anniversary! "The Thousand-Year Flood" is the first comprehensive history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. Welky first shows how decades of settlement put Ohio Valley farms and towns at risk and how politicians and planners repeatedly ignored the dangers. Then he tells the gripping story of the river's inexorable rise. 384 pp. 7!500 print. Zusammenfassung In the early days of 1937! the Ohio River! swollen by heavy winter rains! began rising. By the time the waters crested! the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died! while a million more had run from their homes. This is a history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history.

Product details

• Authors: David Welky, David (University of Central Arkansas) Welky, Welky David
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780226887166
• ISBN: 978-0-226-88716-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Ohio, Mississippi, NATURE / Natural Disasters, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History of the Americas, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Natural disasters