Tempest

Tempest - Cover

Hurricane Naming and American Culture

by Liz Skilton

The Natural World of the Gulf South

328 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 14 halftones, 11 charts, 7 tables

ebook available

History / United States - Southern History | Nature / Weather | Social Studies / Gender Studies

Hardcover / 9780807171172 / June 2019
$55.00
Paperback / 9780807179963 / April 2023
$30.00
In Tempest, Liz Skilton considers the history of hurricane naming, why we name storms, and what effect these names have on society. The study chronologically traces the development of the naming system from its pre-WWII origins, as connected with other naming and identification systems of the natural world, through the present. Taking a Gulf South perspective, the study focuses on key storms that have shaped not only naming history but also understanding of hurricanes in American culture.

Liz Skilton is the author of Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture and head of the Recent Louisiana Disasters Oral History Project.

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