Title Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles / Jon Wilkman. [Boundless electronic resource]

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Bloomsbury USA, 2016.

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Contents	Intro; Half Title; Dedication; Praise; By the Same Author; Title Page; Contents; Prologue; 1. Monday; 2. The Chief and the City of the Angels; 3. â#x80;#x9C;There It Is, Take It!â#x80;#x9D;; 4. Holding Back the Future; 5. A Monster in the Dark; 6. No Time for Nightmares; 7. The Dead Zone; 8. Sympathy, Anger, and Amends; 9. Arguing Over the Ruins; 10. Los Angeles on Trial; 11. Rewinding Time; 12. Hasty Conclusions and High Dams; 13. Paying the Price and Moving On; 14. Unfinished Business and Historical Amnesia; 15. Charleyâ#x80;#x99;s Obsession and Computer Time Machines; 16. After the Fall; Acknowledgments
	Selected BibliographyNotes; Index; A Note on the Author; Copyright
Summary	Examines how the controversial 1928 failure of the St. Francis Dam caused major geological changes that rendered Los Angeles one of America's largest cities and served as a lesson to human limitation.
System Details	Requires Boundless App.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Subject	Floods -- California -- Santa Clara River.
	Dam failures -- California -- History -- 20th century.
	Floodplains -- California.
	Dam failures.
	Floodplains.
	Floods.
	Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
	Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
	California.
	California -- Los Angeles.
	California -- Saint Francis Dam.
	California -- Santa Clara River.
Genre	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	Boundless (Digital media service)
ISBN	9781620409169 : $42.00
	162040916X : $42.00

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