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The Resource Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America, John M. Barry

Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America, John M. Barry

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  • In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months. Rising Tide is the story of this forgotten event, the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known. But it is not simply a tale of disaster. The flood transformed part of the nation and had a major cultural and political impact on the rest. Rising Tide is an American epic about science, race, honor, politics, and society
  • Rising Tide begins in the nineteenth century, when the first serious attempts to control the river began. The story focuses on engineers James Eads and Andrew Humphreys, who hated each other. Out of the collision of their personalities and their theories came a compromise river policy that would lead to the disaster of the 1927 flood yet would also allow the cultivation of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and create wealth and aristocracy, as well as a whole culture. In the end, the flood had indeed changed the face of America, leading to the most comprehensive legislation the government had ever enacted, touching the entire Mississippi valley from Pennsylvania to Montana. In its aftermath was laid the foundation for the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
524 pages, [16] pages of plates
Isbn
9780684810461
Instance
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Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America
Title
Rising tide
Title remainder
the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America
Statement of responsibility
John M. Barry
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • In 1927, the Mississippi River swept across an area roughly equal in size to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont combined, leaving water as deep as thirty feet on the land stretching from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. Close to a million people - in a nation of 120 million - were forced out of their homes. Some estimates place the death toll in the thousands. The Red Cross fed nearly 700,000 refugees for months. Rising Tide is the story of this forgotten event, the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known. But it is not simply a tale of disaster. The flood transformed part of the nation and had a major cultural and political impact on the rest. Rising Tide is an American epic about science, race, honor, politics, and society
  • Rising Tide begins in the nineteenth century, when the first serious attempts to control the river began. The story focuses on engineers James Eads and Andrew Humphreys, who hated each other. Out of the collision of their personalities and their theories came a compromise river policy that would lead to the disaster of the 1927 flood yet would also allow the cultivation of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and create wealth and aristocracy, as well as a whole culture. In the end, the flood had indeed changed the face of America, leading to the most comprehensive legislation the government had ever enacted, touching the entire Mississippi valley from Pennsylvania to Montana. In its aftermath was laid the foundation for the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Awards note
Lillian Smith Book Award, 1997
Cataloging source
DLC
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1947-
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Barry, John M.
Dewey number
977/.03
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
F354
LC item number
.B47 1997
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Humphreys, A. A.
  • Eads, James Buchanan
  • Percy family
  • Floods
  • Flood control
  • Mississippi River Valley
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Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America, John M. Barry
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-496) and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocm36029662
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
524 pages, [16] pages of plates
Isbn
9780684810461
Lccn
96040077
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o36029662
  • (Sirsi) b11062095
Label
Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America, John M. Barry
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-496) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocm36029662
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
524 pages, [16] pages of plates
Isbn
9780684810461
Lccn
96040077
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o36029662
  • (Sirsi) b11062095

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