Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Big Muddy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

500794362

Responsibility statement

Christopher Morris

Sub title

an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina

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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