The river we have wrought : a history of the upper Mississippi /

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The River We Have Wrought is a landmark history of the upper Mississippi from early European exploration through the completion of a navigable channel and a system of locks and dams. John Anfinson examines how politics has shaped the landscapes of the Upper Midwest and how taming the Mississippi has...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anfinson, John O.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003.
Temas:
Human ecology > Mississippi River.
Écologie humaine > Mississippi (Fleuve)
TRANSPORTATION > General.
HISTORY > Historical Geography.
Ecology
Human ecology
Navigation
Mississippi River > History.
Mississippi River > Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River > Navigation > History.
Mississippi (Fleuve) > Histoire.
Mississippi (Fleuve) > Conditions environnementales.
Mississippi (Fleuve) > Navigation > Histoire.
Mississippi River
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Innumerable
  • This splendid juggernaut
  • The bounty of providence
  • Making the Mississippi over again
  • Highway of empire
  • So nearly perfected by nature
  • Cradle, home, and place of sojourn
  • A marooned interior
  • Straining at the chains
  • An inland empire's need
  • This noble river
  • Epilogue : fourth river.

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