Changes in the Air - Rohland, Eleonora
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It's the first "hurricane history" of New Orleans It covers all three of the city's historical eras: French (1718-1762), Spanish (1762-1800) and American (1803-present) based on primary sources It features the first comprehensive history of the New Orleans levees from the French colonial period (including the knowledge transfer from France) to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, using French and Spanish colonial records, as well as primary sources from the American period It combines climate, environmental, social, and economic history It shows how long-term historical processes are linked to and relevant for the present and future…mehr

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It's the first "hurricane history" of New Orleans It covers all three of the city's historical eras: French (1718-1762), Spanish (1762-1800) and American (1803-present) based on primary sources It features the first comprehensive history of the New Orleans levees from the French colonial period (including the knowledge transfer from France) to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, using French and Spanish colonial records, as well as primary sources from the American period It combines climate, environmental, social, and economic history It shows how long-term historical processes are linked to and relevant for the present and future
Autorenporträt
Eleonora Rohland holds a doctorate from the Ruhr-University Bochum. She is full Professor at Bielefeld University and the author of Entangled History and the Environment? Socio-Environmental Transformations in the Caribbean, 1492-1800 (WVT/ University of New Orleans Press, 2021) and of Sharing the Risk: Fire, Climate, and Disaster--Swiss Re 1864-1906 (Crucible Books, 2011).