The thousand-year flood [electronic resource] : the Ohio-Mississippi disaster of 1937

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서명/저자사항	The thousand-year flood [electronic resource]: the Ohio-Mississippi disaster of 1937 / David Welky.
개인저자	Welky, David.
발행사항	Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
형태사항	1 online resource (xiv, 355 p.) : ill.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Welky, David. Thousand-year flood. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011 9780226887166
ISBN	9780226887180 (electronic bk.) 0226887189 (electronic bk.) 9786613250391 6613250392
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	The river -- Roosevelt and the rivers -- Moving out, moving in -- Black Sunday -- Send a boat! -- Those who stayed -- The exiles -- Coming home -- Politics -- Moving? -- Legacies.
요약	<DIV> In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation. Timed to coincide with the flood's seventy-fifth anniversary, The Thousand-Year Flood is the first comprehensive history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. David Welky first shows how decades of settlement put Ohio valley farms and towns at risk and how politicians and planners repeatedly ignored the dangers. Then he tells the gripping story of the river's inexorable rise: residents fled to refugee camps and higher ground, towns imposed martial law, prisoners rioted, Red Cross nurses endured terrifying conditions, and FDR dispatched thousands of relief workers. In a landscape fraught with dangers-from unmoored gas tanks that became floating bombs to powerful currents of filthy floodwaters that swept away whole towns-people hastily raised sandbag barricades, piled into overloaded rowboats, and marveled at water that stretched as far as the eye could see. In the flood's aftermath, Welky explains, New Deal reformers, utopian dreamers, and hard-pressed locals restructured not only the flood-stricken valleys, but also the nation's relationship with its waterways, changes that continue to affect life along the rivers to this day. A striking narrative of danger and adventure-and the mix of heroism and generosity, greed and pettiness that always accompany disaster- The Thousand-Year Flood breathes new life into a fascinating yet little-remembered American story. </DIV>
주제명(지명)	United States --Politics and government --1933-1945.
일반주제명	Floods --Mississippi River Valley --History --20th century. Floods --Ohio River Valley --History --20th century. Disaster relief --United States --History --20th century. New Deal, 1933-1939. Social Science. NATURE --Natural Disasters. SOCIAL SCIENCE --Disasters & Disaster Relief.
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