The Flood Year 1927 : : A Cultural History / / Susan Scott Parrish.
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history. Due to the speed of new media and the slow progress of the flood, this was the first environmental disaster to be experienced on a mass sc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- ONE Modern Overflow
- Disaster's Public
- TWO A Northern Army of Relief
- THREE Cross Talk in the Press
- FOUR Bessie's Eclogue
- FIVE Catastrophe Comes to Vaudeville
- Modernism within a Second Nature
- SIX William Faulkner and the Machine Age Watershed
- SEVEN Richard Wright: Environment, Media, and Race
- Conclusion: Noah's Kin
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- Index