The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History

by Susan Scott Parrish

Book Overview

A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi flood

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 scale. As it moved from north to south down an environmentally and technologically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691168830
• ISBN13: 9780691168838
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"