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Katrina : A History, 1915-2015 by Andy Horowitz (2020, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-10067497171X
ISBN-139780674971714
eBay Product ID (ePID)24038524794
Product Key Features
Book TitleKatrina : a History, 1915-2015
Number of Pages296 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Sociology / General, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Disasters & Disaster Relief
Publication Year2020
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorAndy Horowitz
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight21.5 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width0.6 in
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LCCN2019-049275
ReviewsFor those who are interested in getting through this current disaster by reading about other disasters...The whole idea is that Katrina was not just a tragic singular event that happened in 2005, but the result of centuries of terrible--often intentional--political and business decisions that had been made over the course of the hundred years prior...A super lively and engaging writer., Politicians and corporations, among others, have made poor communities of color vulnerable to climate disasters. As Katrina: A History demonstrates, political and economic choices traded the present and future lives of Louisiana's poor (and especially poor Black) people for unevenly distributed short-term gain...Attentive to history, Horowitz has harsh words for climate utopians who look for technological solutions to the city's problems., Horowitz is a gifted storyteller...This book is the best published history of Katrina. It is a major contribution to urban history, environmental history, and disaster studies, with relevance far beyond southern Louisiana., Katrina: A History is a beautiful book about a long, ugly chapter in our nation's history. Horowitz brilliantly demonstrates that the storm carried with it a century of poor decisions that both preceded and followed the disaster. Corporate greed, misguided policymaking, environmental blindness, corrupt politics, crippling racism, and class inequality: all these human failings were as significant as the broken levees and hurricane-force winds. This is not just a compelling history; it is a distressing warning about our future., Although it is difficult to imagine a fresh take, Andy Horowitz has provided one...Horowitz has made a superb contribution to the field. His long view of the conditions that created New Orleans's particular vulnerability fundamentally shifts the paradigm for understanding both the impact of and recovery from the storm, and his extraordinary prose will make the reader stop and read twice just for the fun of it., This thoroughly researched and clearly written book exposes the relationship between inequality and urban geography, offering a chilling glimpse of future disasters in the making., This masterful history opens nearly a century before the storm and examines how so many people came to live in such a vulnerable place., Horowitz relentlessly pursues how the history of New Orleans, Louisiana, and the United States produced Katrina over the course of a century...Horowitz's argument...has the potential to make a radical contribution to the history of technology...The writing is masterful, at times transcendent., Horowitz disrupts the narrative of disaster as exception...[Tells] the story of Katrina as a cycle of profit-driven and government-sanctioned growth and dispossession., Calling upon a century of history to tell the story of what many Americans limit to a span of days or weeks, Horowitz's Katrina is a devastating and important text for understanding the deep-seated inequality, infrastructure failure, and government carelessness that led to one of America's worst disasters...Reading Horowitz in the age of COVID-19, as the powerful determine who and what are expendable, feels especially instructive., Horowitz does a masterful job of describing the public and private engineering projects that made possible real estate construction, oil exploration, and other forms of economic expansion in New Orleans during the twentieth century, building fortunes for a few while putting thousands in the path of the next big storm... Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we're willing--and unwilling--to protect., Easily the best book on the subject since Douglas Brinkley's 2006 The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast ...The fact that Katrina's impact fell disproportionately on poor Louisianans raises a host of issues that Horowitz addresses better than any previous narrative history of the catastrophe.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal363.349220976335
SynopsisWinner of the Bancroft Prize A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink under the weight of their competing ambitions. Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the twentieth century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing away from the high ground near the Mississippi. And so New Orleans grew in lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system surrounding the city and its suburbs failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The homes that flooded belonged to Louisianans black and white, rich and poor. Katrina's flood washed over the twentieth-century city. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers reapportioned the challenges the water posed, making it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than it was for African Americans. And he explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana's oil industry have been distributed unevenly among the state's citizens for a century, prompting both dreams of abundance-and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. Laying bare the relationship between structural inequality and physical infrastructure-a relationship that has shaped all American cities- Katrina offers a chilling glimpse of the future disasters we are already creating., The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink under the weight of their competing ambitions. Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that made the disaster extend across the twentieth century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing away from the high ground near the Mississippi. And so New Orleans grew in lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system surrounding the city and its suburbs failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The homes that flooded belonged to Louisianans black and white, rich and poor. Katrina's flood washed over the twentieth-century city. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers reapportioned the challenges the water posed, making it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than it was for African Americans. And he explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana's oil industry have been distributed unevenly among the state's citizens for a century, prompting both dreams of abundance--and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. Laying bare the relationship between structural inequality and physical infrastructure--a relationship that has shaped all American cities-- Katrina offers a chilling glimpse of the future disasters we are already creating., Winner of the Bancroft Prize A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of citymaking, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink under the weight of their competing ambitions. Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster extend across the twentieth century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing away from the high ground near the Mississippi. And so New Orleans grew in lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system surrounding the city and its suburbs failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The homes that flooded belonged to Louisianans black and white, rich and poor. Katrina's flood washed over the twentieth-century city. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers reapportioned the challenges the water posed, making it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than it was for African Americans. And he explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana's oil industry have been distributed unevenly among the state's citizens for a century, prompting both dreams of abundance--and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. Laying bare the relationship between structural inequality and physical infrastructure--a relationship that has shaped all American cities-- Katrina offers a chilling glimpse of the future disasters we are already creating., The Katrina disaster was not a weather event of summer 2005. It was a disaster a century in the making, a product of lessons learned from previous floods, corporate and government decision making, and the political economy of the United States at large. New Orleans's history is America's history, and Katrina represents America's possible future.
LC Classification NumberHV636
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