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The flood year 1927 : a cultural history / Susan Scott Parrish.
LIBRA F354 .P27 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parrish, Susan Scott, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Floods--Mississippi River Valley--History--20th century.
- Floods.
- Disaster relief--Mississippi River Valley--History--20th century.
- Disaster relief.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Mississippi River Valley--Social conditions--20th century.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Mississippi River Valley--History--1865-.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Modern overflow
- A Northern army of relief
- Cross talk in the press
- Bessie's eclogue
- Catastrophe comes to Vaudeville
- William Faulkner and the machine age watershed
- Richard Wright: environment, media, and race
- Conclusion: Noah's kin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691168838
- 0691168830
- OCLC:
- 946254933
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