Richard M Mizelle
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1090688 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard M Mizelle |
| PRENOMES | Richard M |
| SOBRENOME | Mizelle |
| ASSINATURA | MIZELLE R M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7421-8916 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Hurricane Katrina, Diabetes, and the Meaning of Resiliency
Hurricane Katrina offered a revealing snapshot of the historical vulnerability that New Orleans and Gulf Coast residents have long experienced and continue to face. In particular, population groups with special health needs—those suffering from debilitating chronic diseases—were among those most at risk during the storm. Focusing specifically on diabetic evacuees during and after Katrina, this essay examines how the lack of planning during the di…
Race and environmental history
Africans and African Americans have always expressed an environmental consciousness rooted in their specific historical experience in North America. Their relationship to the nonhuman world is reflected through desires for leisure in natural spaces, demand of land ownership, and unique experiences of labor, disasters, and connecting to the land in both urban and southern spaces. Beginning in the 1970s, historians began thinking more critically ab…
Regional Cultures and Mortality in America by Stephen J. Kunitz
Reviewed by: Regional Cultures and Mortality in America by Stephen J. Kunitz Richard M. Mizelle Jr. Stephen J. Kunitz. Regional Cultures and Mortality in America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv + 279 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-1-107-07963-2). The mortality of individuals and groups of people has long fascinated historians and public health officials. By the mid-nineteenth century, sickness and death, healthy and unhealthy landscapes for…
John C. Burnham. Healthcare in America
One of the more positive recent trends in academia is the more regular presence of historians of medicine, science, and technology in faculty ranks at universities and colleges across the country. The result is that course offerings in the study of disease identity, medicine, and science are not nearly as unusual as they might have been twenty years ago. As a result, there is an important need for scholarship (monographs, articles, and textbooks)…
Black Levee Camp Workers, the Naacp, and the Mississippi Flood Control Project, 1927–1933
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Reviewed by: Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana Richard Mizelle (bio) Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana. By Craig E. Colten. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. Pp. x+195. $40. The deadly hurricane season of 2005 that included Hurricanes Katrina and Rita reified the convoluted and contested history of coastal protection in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. …
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Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Reviewed by: Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana Richard Mizelle (bio) Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana. By Craig E. Colten. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. Pp. x+195. $40. The deadly hurricane season of 2005 that included Hurricanes Katrina and Rita reified the convoluted and contested history of coastal protection in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. …
Black Levee Camp Workers, the Naacp, and the Mississippi Flood Control Project, 1927–1933
Regional Cultures and Mortality in America by Stephen J. Kunitz
Reviewed by: Regional Cultures and Mortality in America by Stephen J. Kunitz Richard M. Mizelle Jr. Stephen J. Kunitz. Regional Cultures and Mortality in America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv + 279 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-1-107-07963-2). The mortality of individuals and groups of people has long fascinated historians and public health officials. By the mid-nineteenth century, sickness and death, healthy and unhealthy landscapes for…
John C. Burnham. Healthcare in America
One of the more positive recent trends in academia is the more regular presence of historians of medicine, science, and technology in faculty ranks at universities and colleges across the country. The result is that course offerings in the study of disease identity, medicine, and science are not nearly as unusual as they might have been twenty years ago. As a result, there is an important need for scholarship (monographs, articles, and textbooks)…
Race and environmental history
Africans and African Americans have always expressed an environmental consciousness rooted in their specific historical experience in North America. Their relationship to the nonhuman world is reflected through desires for leisure in natural spaces, demand of land ownership, and unique experiences of labor, disasters, and connecting to the land in both urban and southern spaces. Beginning in the 1970s, historians began thinking more critically ab…
Hurricane Katrina, Diabetes, and the Meaning of Resiliency
Hurricane Katrina offered a revealing snapshot of the historical vulnerability that New Orleans and Gulf Coast residents have long experienced and continue to face. In particular, population groups with special health needs—those suffering from debilitating chronic diseases—were among those most at risk during the storm. Focusing specifically on diabetic evacuees during and after Katrina, this essay examines how the lack of planning during the di…
History (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Geography (3 obras) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 obras) · Economic history (2 obras) · Environmental ethics (2 obras) · History of Science and Medicine (2 obras) · Hurricane katrina (2 obras) · Law (2 obras) · Levee (2 obras)