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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Mississippi River > Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River Valley > Environmental conditions.
Stream ecology > Mississippi River > History.
Human ecology > Mississippi River > History.
Mississippi River > History.
Mississippi River Valley > History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Symptoms of a pathological landscape
  • Cotton, chemicals, catfish, crawfish
  • Nature's return : Hurricane Katrina and the future of the Big Muddy.