Changes in the Air

Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-931-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: The environment in history

Hurricanes have been a constant in the history of New Orleans. Since before its settlement as a French colony in the eighteenth century, the land entwined between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River has been lashed by powerful Gulf storms.  Time and again, these hurricanes have wrought immeasurable loss and devastation, spurring reinvention and ingenuity on the part of inhabitants. Changes in the Air offers a rich and thoroughly researched history of how hurricanes have shaped and reshaped New Orleans from the colonial era to the present day, focusing on how its residents have adapted to a uniquely unpredictable and destructive environment across more than three centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rohland, Eleonora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Maps

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Hurricane 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

Über Autor(innen)

Rohland, Eleonora
Eleonora Rohland holds a doctorate from the Ruhr-University Bochum. She is an Assistant Professor at Bielefeld University and the author of Sharing the Risk: Fire, Climate, and Disaster—Swiss Re 1864–1906 (Crucible Books, 2011).

Eleonora Rohland holds a doctorate from the Ruhr-University Bochum. She is an Assistant Professor at Bielefeld University and the author of Sharing the Risk: Fire, Climate, and Disaster—Swiss Re 1864–1906 (Crucible Books, 2011).