Governing floods and riots: Insurance, risk, and racism in the postwar United States

Historical Social Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 275-288

  Lübken, Uwe ^a  

^a Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society   (Germany)

Author keywords

Floods; Insurance; Racism; Redlining; Riots; Risk; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957348645     PISSN: 01726404     EISSN: 09366784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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