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

Morris, Christopher, 1958-

Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, c2012

XII, 300 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 25 cm

Englisch

Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - 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

978-0-19-531691-9 ((hbk.) £22.50); 0-19-531691-6 ((hbk.) £22.50)

016102495

OCoLC: 813379269 (aus SWB)     

GE155.M57

304.20977     Ähnliche Literatur

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