Heavy Ground

William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-520-28766-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Western Histories

Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than 12 billion gallons of water surging through California’s Santa Clara Valley and killing some 400 people, causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. This extensively illustrated volume gives an account of how the St. Francis Dam came to be built, the reasons for its collapse, the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, the efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, the political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on dam safety regulation. Underlying all is a consideration of how the dam—and the disaster—were inextricably intertwined with the life and career of William Mulholland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hundley, Norris

Jackson, Donald C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Dämme, Wasserspeicher und Talsperren (Bauingenieurwesen)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Norris Hundley Jr. (1935–2013) was professor of American history at UCLA. Donald C. Jackson is Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History at Lafayette College.