Katrina: A History 1915-2015 PDF
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This content downloaded from 150.107.212.142 on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:22:22 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms katrina This content downloaded from 150.107.212.142 on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:22:22 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 150.107.212.142 on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:22:22 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms KATR I NA A History, 1915–2015 ANDY HOROWITZ Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England 2020 This content downloaded from 150.107.212.142 on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:22:22 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Copyright © 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca Publication of this book has been supported through the generous provisions of the Maurice and Lula Bradley Smith Memorial Fund First printing Cover photo: POOL / AFP / Getty Images Cover design: Jill Breitbarth 9780674246768 (EPUB) 9780674246775 (MOBI) 9780674246782 (PDF) The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names: Horowitz, Andy (Andrew Deutsch), author. Title: Katrina : a history, 1915–2015 / Andy Horowitz. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020. | Includes index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2019049275 | ISBN 9780674971714 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Hurricanes—Louisiana—New Orleans—History. | Hurricane Katrina, 2005. | New Orleans (La.)—Economic conditions. | New Orleans (La.)—History. | New Orleans (La.)— Politics and government. Classification: LCC HV636 2005 .N4 H67 2020 | DDC 363.34 / 9220976335—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049275 This content downloaded from 150.107.212.142 on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:22:22 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms CONTENTS Introduction 1 PART I 1. How to Sink New Orleans: Controlling Floods, Oil, and States’ Rights, 1927–1965 19 2. Help!: Hurricane Betsy and the Politics of Disaster in the Lower Ninth Ward, 1965–1967 44 3. The New New Orleans: Louisiana Grows and Shrinks, 1967–2005 69 PART II 4. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?: Hurricane Katrina, August– September 2005 115 5. Rebuilding the Land of Dreams: 2005–2015 138 Epilogue:The End of Empire, Louisiana 181 Notes 199 Acknowl edgments 265 Index 269 Illustrations follow page 97 This content downloaded from 150.107.212.142 on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:26:11 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 150.107.212.142 on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:26:11 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms LLaakkee PPoonnttcchh aa rr tt rr aa ii nn Orleans Lake Parish B o r St.Charles JePfaferrisshon MississippiRiver-gGneulf Parish St.Bernard Outlet Plaquemines Parish Parish Lafourche Parish Mississi p pi R i v er Katrinafloodarea, September2,2005 LakePontchartrainandVicinity HurricaneProtectionProject Parishboundary 0 10mi Katrina flood area, September 2, 2005. This content downloaded from 150.107.212.142 on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:26:18 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Katrinaflooddepth, September2,2005 240---462fffeeeeeettt L a k e P o n t c h a r t r a i n 6-8feet 8+feet NewOrleans al nal lan Gentilly East n a a a C C C e e et nu un Metairie 17thStre LakeviewOrleansAve evAnodnoL Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Bayou Bie nMveinssueissippiRiver-GulfO utlet al n Mid-City Treme alCa LNoinwtehr ri Ward French dust Arabi Quarter In Broadmoor Chalmette Algiers Uptown GardenDistrict i p R i v e r p i s s Gretna i s s M i 0 1mi Katrina flood depth, September 2, 2005. This content downloaded from 150.107.212.142 on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:26:18 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Katrinaflooddepth, September2,2005 240---462fffeeeeeettt L a k e P o n t c h a r t r a i n 6-8feet 8+feet NewOrleans al nal lan Gentilly East n a a a C C C e e et nu un Metairie 17thStre LakeviewOrleansAve evAnodnoL Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Bayou Bie nMveinssueissippiRiver-GulfO utlet al n Mid-City Treme alCa LNoinwtehr ri Ward French dust Arabi Quarter In Broadmoor Chalmette Algiers Uptown GardenDistrict i p R i v e r p i s s Gretna i s s M i 0 1mi This content downloaded from 150.107.212.142 on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:26:18 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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