Mississippi River Tragedies : : A Century of Unnatural Disaster /

Mississippi River Tragedies : : A Century of Unnatural Disaster / / Christine A. Klein, Sandra B. Zellmer.

Read a free excerpt here!American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Klein, Christine A.,
Zellmer, Sandra B.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. AN UNNATURAL RIVER
  • 2. A DECADE OF RECORD FLOODS (1903–1913)
  • 3. THE FLOOD OF 1927
  • 4. THE FLOOD OF 1937
  • 5. MID-CENTURY FLOODS IN THE MISSOURI RIVER BASIN
  • 6. HURRICANE BETSY OF 1965
  • 7. THE FLOOD OF 1993
  • 8. HURRICANE KATRINA OF 2005
  • 9. RUINED LIVES
  • 10. DOUBLE-TAKES
  • CONCLUSION.
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Authors

Similar Items