Mark M. Smith
Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane
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Thirty-six years before Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and southern Mississippi, the region was visited by one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the United States: Camille.Mark M. Smith offers three highly original histories of the storm's impact in southern Mississippi. In the first essay Smith examines the sensory experience and impact of the hurricane--how the storm rearranged and challenged residents' senses of smell, sight, sound, touch, and taste. The second essay explains the way key federal officials linked the question of hurricane relief and the desegregation of Mississippi's public schools. Smith concludes by consi…
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Thirty-six years before Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and southern Mississippi, the region was visited by one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the United States: Camille.Mark M. Smith offers three highly original histories of the storm's impact in southern Mississippi. In the first essay Smith examines the sensory experience and impact of the hurricane--how the storm rearranged and challenged residents' senses of smell, sight, sound, touch, and taste. The second essay explains the way key federal officials linked the question of hurricane relief and the desegregation of Mississippi's public schools. Smith concludes by considering the political economy of short- and long-term disaster recovery, returning to issues of race and class.Camille, 1969 offers stories of survival and experience, of the tenacity of social justice in the face of a natural disaster, and of how recovery from Camille worked for some but did not work for others. Throughout these essays are lessons about how we might learn from the past in planning for recovery from natural disasters in the future.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8203-3722-7
- EAN: 9780820337227
- Produktnummer: 10971191
- Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 90 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.0 cm 254 g
- Auflage: New
- Reihenbandnummer: 51
- Gewicht: 254
Über den Autor
Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History; Writing the American Past: U.S. History to 1877; and Hearing History: A Reader (Georgia).
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