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  title info:
    title: Bulwark against the bay
    sub title: the people of Corpus Christi and their seawall
  name:
    name part: O'Rear, Mary Jo
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 176 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: After a devastating hurricane in 1919, the people of Corpus Christi faced the stark reality of their vulnerability. It was clear that something had to be done to protect the community against future storms, but the mere will to take precautionary measures did not necessarily lead the way. Instead, two decades would pass before an effective solution was in place. Mary Jo O'Rear, author of Storm over the Bay, returns to tell the story of a city's long and often frustrating path to protecting itself. The result of tireless research, Bulwark Against the Bay reveals that in the decades after the 1919 storm, eight different plans for a seawall along Corpus Christi Bay were put forth. O'Rear argues that each plan reflected the point of view of a particular engineer, politician or artist while also reflecting the aspirations and anxieties of the time. The struggle to construct a seawall was not merely an engineering challenge. It was also bound up with the growing popularity of the Ku Klux Klan, local aversion to Roman Catholicism, the emergence of the League of United Latin American Citizens, new efforts on behalf of African American equality, the impact of the Great Depression, support for Franklin Roosevelt and reactions to the New Deal. A case study of a community wrestling with itself even as it races with the clock, Bulwark Against the Bay adds to our understanding of urban history, boardroom and backroom politics and the sometimes harsh realities of geography and climate.
  table of contents: Acknowledgments: My road trip -- Introduction: Corpus Christi at dawn -- The dam -- Back stream -- Undercurrents -- Countercurrents -- Force flows -- Tidal spring -- Reflux -- Rapids -- The bridge -- Undergirdings -- Cross-spans -- Stress failure -- The wall -- Mooring posts -- Weep holes -- Specifications -- Pilings -- Capstone.
  note: Mary Jo O'Rear.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Sea-walls
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Corpus Christi
  subject:
    topic: Hurricane protection
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Corpus Christi
    topic: Planning
  subject:
    geographic: Corpus Christi (Tex.)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Corpus Christi (Tex.)
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Corpus Christi (Tex.)
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: F394.C78 O73 2017
  classification: 976.4/113
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Gulf Coast books ; no. 30
  identifier: 9781623494919
  identifier: 1623494915
  identifier: 2016030147
  record info:
    record content source: TXA/DLC
    record creation date: 160701
    record change date: 20170927140628.0
    record identifier: in00003756062