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    The Big Muddy : an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina (2012)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0195316916 , 0199717907 , 1283739631 , 9780195316919 , 9780199717903 , 9781283739634
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles) Big Muddy
    DDC: 304.20977
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography ; Ecology ; Human ecology ; Stream ecology ; Geschichte ; Ökologie ; Stream ecology History ; Human ecology History
    Description / 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 -- 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
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    The Big Muddy : an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina (2012)
    New York, NY : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0199717907 , 9780199717903
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 300 p)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles) Big Muddy
    DDC: 304.20977
    Keywords: Stream ecology History ; Human ecology History ; Human ecology ; Stream ecology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; Ecology ; History ; Mississippi River Valley Environmental conditions ; Mississippi River History ; Mississippi River Valley History ; Mississippi River Environmental conditions ; Mississippi River ; Mississippi River Valley
    Abstract: 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
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    Assumed Identities : The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World (2010)
    College Station : Texas A&M University Press
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    ISBN: 9781603443197
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (165 pages)
    Series Statement: Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press v.41
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Group identity History ; Eurocentrism History ; Nationalism History ; Ethnic relations Religious aspects 17th century ; History ; Slave trade History 19th century ; America ; Race relations ; History ; Ethnic relations ; Religious aspects ; History ; 17th century ; Eurocentrism ; America ; History ; Group identity ; America ; History ; Haiti ; Ethnic relations ; History ; 18th century ; Nationalism ; America ; History ; Slave trade ; Brazil ; History ; 19th century ; Electronic books ; America Race relations ; History ; Haiti Ethnic relations 18th century ; History ; Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804 ; Virginia Ethnic relations 17th century ; History ; West Indies, British Ethnic relations 18th century ; History
    Abstract: With the recent election of the nation's first African American president, the topic of transnational identity is reaching the forefront of the national consciousness in an unprecedented way. As our society becomes increasingly diverse and intermingled, it is increasingly imperative to understand how race and heritage impact our perceptions of and interactions with each other.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Race and Identity in the New World -- "Thy Coming Fame, Ogé! Is Sure": New Evidence on Ogé's! Revoltand the Beginnings of the Haitian Revolution -- "The Child Should Be Made a Christian": Baptism, Race, and Identity inthe Seventeenth- century Chesapeake -- West Indian Identityin the Eighteenth Century -- Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom inNineteenth- century Brazil -- Rosalie of the Poulard Nation: Freedom, Law, and Dignity inthe Era of the Haitian Revolution -- In Memoriam, Evan Anders -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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    Assumed identities : the meanings of race in the Atlantic world (2010)
    College Station, Tex. : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A & M University Press
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    ISBN: 9781603443197 , 1603443193
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 152 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures no. 41
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Assumed identities
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Group identity History ; America ; Eurocentrism History ; America ; Nationalism History ; America ; Ethnic relations Religious aspects ; History ; 17th century ; Slave trade History ; 19th century ; Brazil ; Slave trade History 19th century ; Ethnic relations Religious aspects 17th century ; History ; Nationalism History ; Eurocentrism History ; Group identity History ; Slave trade ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Ethnic relations ; Religious aspects ; Eurocentrism ; Group identity ; Nationalism ; Race relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; History ; Ethnic relations ; America Race relations ; History ; Haiti Ethnic relations ; History ; 18th century ; Haiti History ; Revolution, 1791-1804 ; Virginia Ethnic relations ; History ; 17th century ; West Indies, British Ethnic relations ; History ; 18th century ; Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804 ; Virginia Ethnic relations 17th century ; History ; America Race relations ; History ; West Indies, British Ethnic relations 18th century ; History ; Haiti Ethnic relations 18th century ; History ; America ; Brazil ; Haiti ; Virginia ; West Indies ; British West Indies ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Introduction: race and identity in the new world / Franklin W. Knight -- "Thy coming fame, Ogé! is sure": new evidence on Ogé's 1790 revolt and the beginnings of the Haitian Revolution / John D. Garrigus -- "The child should be made a Christian": baptism, race, and identity in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Rebecca Goetz -- West Indian identity in the eighteenth century / Trevor Burnard -- Illegal enslavement and the precariousness of freedom in nineteenth-century Brazil / Sidney Chalhoub -- Rosalie of the Poulard nation: freedom, law, and dignity in the era of the Haitian Revolution / Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard -- In memoriam, Evan Anders
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