Char Miller

West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

The 1921 flood that put a spotlight on environmental and social inequality in a southwestern city

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trinity University Press, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781595349736
• ISBN-10: 1595349731
• Artikelnr.: 62591713

Autorenporträt

Char Miller, formerly a professor of history at Trinity University, is the W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College. He is the author of the award-winning Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land and Life in South Texas, and Public Lands/Public Debates: A Century of Controversy, as well as the editor of On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio and Fifty Years of the Texas Observer. His most recent books for Trinity University Press are Not So Golden State: Sustainability vs. the California Dream and On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest. Miller is a frequent contributor to print, electronic, and social media.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction:
Culebra de Aquä Prologue: 1819 1.
Death Rides on Waters of Three Streams
2. Rescue Mission 3. Military Intervention 4. Dam the Olmos! 5. Construction Projects 6. Uprising Aftermath Names of the Dead, Missing, and Injured Notes Acknowledgments and Credits Index