The Big Muddy : an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina /

The Mississippi Valley has been a place where the battle between water and land has been a constant for centuries. It has shaped the relationship between its inhabitants and their environment long before Hurricane Katrina, though of course these events have put the topic in the headlines and made th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Stream ecology > Mississippi River > History.
Human ecology > Mississippi River > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Ecology
Human ecology
Stream ecology
Mississippi River > Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River Valley > Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River > History.
Mississippi River Valley > History.
Mississippi (Fleuve) > Conditions environnementales.
Mississippi, Vallée du > Conditions environnementales.
Mississippi (Fleuve) > Histoire.
Mississippi, Vallée du > Histoire.
Mississippi River
Mississippi River Valley
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Valley of mud
  • Knee Deep in water and snakes
  • Rice
  • The rise of New Orleans and the fall of Natchez
  • Consolidation, transformation, conservation
  • King Cotton meets Big Muddy
  • The Cotton kingdom's edges made and Unmade
  • Engineering the river of empire
  • Drought, disease, and other symptoms of a pathological landscape
  • Cotton, chemicals, catfish, crawfish
  • Nature's return : hurricane Katrina and the future of the Big Muddy.

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