E-book
The Big Muddy : an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina
Record details
- ISBN: 0195316916
- ISBN: 9780195316919
- ISBN: 1283739631
- ISBN: 9781283739634
- ISBN: 0199717907
- ISBN: 9780199717903
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps
remote - Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |
