Katrina: A History 1915–2015 Andy Horowitz Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία World

Winner Of The Bancroft Prizelouisiana Endowment For Humanities Book Yeara Publishers Weekly Year“The Main Thrust Horowitz’s Account Is To Make Us Understand Katrina—The Civic Calamity Not Storm Itself—As A Consequence Decades Bad Decisions By Humans An Unanticipated Caprice Nature ”—Nicholas Lemann New Yorkerhurricane Katrina Made Landfall In Orleans On August 29 2005 But That Caused Disaster Can Be Traced Back Nearly Century After City Weathered Major Hurricane 1915 Its Sewerage And Water Board Believed Developers Could Safely Build Housing Near Mississippi Lowlands Relied Significant Government Subsidies Stay Dry When Flawed Levee System Failed These Were Neighborhoods Devastated Flood Line Tells One Important Story About It Only Matters Andy Horowitz Investigates Response Policymakers Easier White Orleanians Return Home Than African Americans He Explores How Profits Liabilities Created Louisiana’s Oil Industry Have Been Distributed Unevenly Prompting Dreams Abundance Catastrophic Land Loss Crisis Continues Today “Masterful…Disasters Power Reveal Who We Are What Value We’re Willing—And Unwilling—To Protect ”—New York Review Books“If You Want Read Better Why People Positions Do So Little Address Climate Change Even With Wildfires Burning Ice Caps Melting Extinctions Becoming Daily Occurrence This ”—Los Angeles Books Σελίδες: 296 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0503 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm