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
Note:
Description based on print version record
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