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As the subtitle indicates, the book not only is a history of the disaster itself, but also is a social history of the mississippi river delta region over nearly a century from 18301930 and beyond, for the tale. Barrys book describes a natural disaster that has faded a bit in the national memory. This deadly global flu outbreak has gotten hazy in the public memory, and its origins and character were unclear from the beginning, writes popular historian barry rising tide, 1997, etc. The great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed america an american epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the mississippi river, rising tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known. An american epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the mississippi river, rising tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known the mississippi flood of 1927. The story of the deadliest pandemic in history, a study of the 1918 pandemic, the years outstanding book on.
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