Rising Tide : The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry

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New York, New York, U.S.A. 1998 Trade Paperback Fine/No Jacket 8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall 0684840022 1998---Later Printing------Keywords: NONFICTION MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOOD OF 1927-------Near Fine Trade Paperback----No Creases, Tears to to Covers or Spine-----Free of Added Writing, Notes or Underlining of Text-----No Previous Owners Name-----Pages Very Slightly Tanned----Not Ex-Library Copy-----No Remainder Marks-----Not Book Club Edition-----from Smoke-Free Environment-----524 Pages with Index & Photos Section.

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1998 Trade Paperback New in New jacket 0684840022 From Library Journal In the spring of 1927, America witnessed perhaps its greatest natural disaster: a flood that profoundly changed race relations, government, and society in the Mississippi River valley region. Barry (The Transformed Cell, LJ 9/1/92) presents here a fascinating social history of the effects of the massive flood. More than 30 feet of water stood over land inhabited by nearly one million people. Almost 300, 000 African Americans were forced to live in refugee camps for months. Many people, both black and white, left the land and never returned. Using an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, Barry clearly traces and analyzes how the changes produced by the flood in the lower South came into conflict and ultimately destroyed the old planter aristocracy, accelerated black migration to the North, and foreshadowed federal government intervention in the region's social and economic life during the New Deal. His well-written work su

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0684840022 From Library Journal In the spring of 1927, America witnessed perhaps its greatest natural disaster: a flood that profoundly changed race relations, government, and society in the Mississippi River valley region. Barry (The Transformed Cell, LJ 9/1/92) presents here a fascinating social history of the effects of the massive flood. More than 30 feet of water stood over land inhabited by nearly one million people. Almost 300,000 African Americans were forced to live in refugee camps for months. Many people, both black and white, left the land and never returned. Using an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, Barry clearly traces and analyzes how the changes produced by the flood in the lower South came into conflict and ultimately destroyed the old planter aristocracy, accelerated black migration to the North, and foreshadowed federal government intervention in the region's social and economic life during the New Deal. His well-written work supplants Pete Daniel's Deep'n as It Come: The 1927 Mi ...

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