Tides and Floods

New Research on London and the Tidal Thames from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

von James Galloway

84 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The lands bordering the tidal river Thames and the Thames Estuary have historically been highly vulnerable to marine flooding. The most severe of these floods derive from North Sea storm surges, when wind and tide combine to drive huge quantities of water against the coast, as happened to devastating effect in 1953. This project seeks to understand the occurrence of storm flooding in the past, and to explore the ways in which people have responded to the threat. >The volume concludes with an overview of the multi-faceted work of the Thames Discovery Programme, which is increasing our knowledge of many aspects of the Thames's past, from medieval fish traps, through nineteenth-century shipbuilding, to the Blitz, which posed a new and very real flood threat to the mid-twentieth century metropolis.

• Reihe: University of London Press
• ISBN: 9781905165599
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2010
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: University of London Press