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Camille, 1969: Histories of a Hurricane (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Ser.)

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Thirty-six years before Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and southern Mississippi, the region used to be visited by some of the powerful hurricanes ever to hit the US: Camille.

Mark M. Smith offers three highly original histories of the storm’s have an effect on in southern Mississippi. In the first essay Smith examines the sensory experience and have an effect on of the hurricane―how the storm rearranged and challenged residents’ senses of smell, sight, sound, touch, and taste. The second one essay explains the way in which key federal officials linked the question of hurricane relief and the desegregation of Mississippi’s public schools. Smith concludes by making an allowance for the political economy of short- and long-term disaster recovery, returning to issues of race and class.

Camille, 1969 offers stories of survival and experience, of the tenacity of social justice in the face of a natural disaster, and of how recovery from Camille worked for some but didn’t work for others. All through these essays are lessons about how we might learn from the past in planning for recovery from natural disasters someday.

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