Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles

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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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilkman, Jon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Floods > California > Santa Clara River.
Dam failures > California > History > 20th century.
Floodplains > California.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY).
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Dams & Reservoirs.
Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > 20th century.
Description
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.
Physical Description:326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-310) and index.
ISBN:9781620409176 (pbk.)
9781620409152
1620409151

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