TY - GEN AU - Parrish,Susan Scott TI - The flood year 1927: a cultural history PY - 2017/// CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press KW - Mississippi River Valley KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Social conditions KW - 1865- KW - American 4 KW - 1900-present KW - Floods KW - Disaster relief N1 - Published by Princeton University Press; Owing to limitations of space, all acknowledgments for permission to reprint previously published and unpublished material can be found on page 369, which is an extension of this copyright page; This book has been composed in Minion Pro, Monotype Modern Std and John Sans White Pro; Printed on acid-free paper; Printed in the United States of America; E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references and index; Modern Overflow -- A Northern Army of Relief -- Cross Talk in the Press -- Bessie's Eclogue -- Catastrophe Comes to Vaudeville -- William Faulkner and the Machine Age Watershed -- Richard Wright: Environment, Media, and Race; Jacket photograph: “Rolling Fork, Miss. 5-2-27,” flood water covers streets and railroad tracks, railroad cars sit on tracks. Rolling Fork, MS, 1927 Flood Photograph Collection, courtesy of Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Image of ripples courtesy of Shutterstock UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb34128 ER -