Katrina : : A History, 1915–2015 / / Andy Horowitz.
The Katrina disaster was not a weather event of summer 2005. It was a disaster a century in the making, a product of lessons learned from previous floods, corporate and government decision making, and the political economy of the United States at large. New Orleans’s history is America’s history, an...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I
- 1. How to Sink New Orleans: Controlling Floods, Oil, and States’ Rights, 1927–1965
- 2. Help!: Hurricane Betsy and the Politics of Disaster in the Lower Ninth Ward, 1965–1967
- 3. The New New Orleans: Louisiana Grows and Shrinks, 1967–2005
- PART II
- 4. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?: Hurricane Katrina, August–September 2005
- 5. Rebuilding the Land of Dreams: 2005–2015
- Epilogue:The End of Empire, Louisiana
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX