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Transforming New Orleans and its environs : centuries of change /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2000]
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| Colección: | University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Transforming the lower Mississippi River Valley / Craig E. Colten
- Part 1 : Transformation before urbanization. Making the city inevitable : Native Americans and the geography of New Orleans / Tristram R. Kidder ; Impenetrable but easy : the French transformation of the lower Mississippi Valley and the founding of New Orleans / Christopher Morris
- Part 2 : Environment in service of the city. Forests and other river perils / Ari Kelman ; Subduing nature through engineering : Caleb G. Forshey and the levees-only policy, 1851-1881 / George S. Pabis ; Historical perspective on crevasses, levees, and the Mississippi River / Donald W. Davis
- Part 3 : Growing demands of the city. Perspective, power, and priorities : New Orleans and the Mississippi River Flood of 1927 / Gay M. Gomez ; In the wake of Hurricane Betsy / Todd Shallat
- Part 4 : Response to environmental change. Too much of a good thing : industrial pollution in the lower Mississippi River / Craig E. Colten ; Baton Rouge : the making (and breaking) of a petrochemical paradise / Raymond J. Burby ; The popular geography of illness in the industrial corridor / Barbara Allen ; Fish diversity in a heavily industrialized stretch of the lower Mississippi River / H.L. Bart.