Draining New Orleans : The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City /

"Draining New Orleans is the first full-length book entirely devoted to one of the world's most challenging drainage problems: the reclamation and drainage of a fluvial delta for the development of the City of New Orleans. Renowned Crescent City geographer and historian Richard Campanella...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campanella, Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Reclamation of land.
Drainage.
Reclamation of land > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Drainage > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
New Orleans (La.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: These Oozy and Muddy Lands
  • Adapt or Retreat
  • The Ditch-and-Gravity Era, 1720s-1830s
  • The Polder-and-Paddle Era, 1830s-1850s
  • Plagues and Progress, 1850s-1860s
  • Capers and Consequences, 1860s-1870s
  • The Progressive Era, 1880s-1890s
  • Dewatering New Orleans, 1900s-1910s
  • Geographies Rearranged, 1910s-1920s
  • Drainage Becomes a Utility, 1920s-1950s
  • The Feds Wade In, 1960s-1990s
  • The Only Thing That Can Mess Us Up, Early 2000s
  • Rewatering New Orleans, 2010s-2020s.

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