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Author Rohland, Eleonora, author

Title Changes in the air : hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the present / Eleonora Rohland
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages)
Series The environment in history : international perspectives ; volume 15
Environment in history ; v. 15.
Contents Intro; Changes in the Air; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures and Maps; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction -- Hurrican Katrina and the Future of the Past; Chapter 1 -- Adaptation, Knowledge, and Hurricanes in History; Chapter 2 -- Environmental Learning and Path Dependence; Chapter 3 -- Moving out of Harm's Way; Chapter 4 -- Disaster and Social Order; Chapter 5 -- Hurricanes vs. "Mass Idleness"; Chapter 6 -- To Mandate or Not to Mandate . . .; Chapter 7 -- Adaptive Practices, Past and Present; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2018)
Subject Hurricanes -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
Hurricanes -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Hurricanes -- Social aspects
Hurricanes
SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091383
Subject Louisiana -- New Orleans
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018040765
ISBN 9781785339325
178533932X