{"product_id":"the-flood-year-1927-susan-scott-parrish-9780691168838","title":"The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi flood\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history. Due to the speed of new media and the slow progress of the flood, this was the first environmental disaster to be experienced on a mass scale. As it moved from north to south down an environmentally and technologically altered valley, inundating plantations and displacing more than half a million people, the flood provoked an intense and lasting cultural response. \u003ci\u003eThe Flood Year 1927\u003c\/i\u003e draws from newspapers, radio broadcasts, political cartoons, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry, and fiction to show how this event took on public meanings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmericans at first seemed united in what Herbert Hoover called a \"great relief machine,\" but deep rifts soon arose. Southerners, pointing to faulty federal levee design, decried the attack of Yankee water. The condition of African American evacuees in \"concentration camps\" prompted pundits like W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells to warn of the return of slavery to Dixie. And environmentalists like Gifford Pinchot called the flood \"the most colossal blunder in civilized history.\" Susan Scott Parrish examines how these and other key figures--from entertainers Will Rogers, Miller \u0026amp; Lyles, and Bessie Smith to authors Sterling Brown, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright--shaped public awareness and collective memory of the event. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe crises of this period that usually dominate historical accounts are war and financial collapse, but \u003ci\u003eThe Flood Year 1927\u003c\/i\u003e enables us to assess how mediated environmental disasters became central to modern consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Scott Parrish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691168830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691168838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/07\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2017","brand":"Susan Scott Parrish","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120045486335,"sku":"9780691168838","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60a20e2e-5f87-4a52-8147-d2b9eb5c7fc3.jpg?v=1687412271","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-flood-year-1927-susan-scott-parrish-9780691168838","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}