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Author Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles)
Title The Big Muddy : an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina / Christopher Morris.
Publication Info New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.


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Descript xii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780195316919 (hardcover)
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Author Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles)
Subject Stream ecology -- Mississippi River -- History.
Human ecology -- Mississippi River -- History.
Mississippi River -- Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River Valley -- Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River -- History.
Mississippi River Valley -- History.
Descript xii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780195316919 (hardcover)
Author Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles)
Subject Stream ecology -- Mississippi River -- History.
Human ecology -- Mississippi River -- History.
Mississippi River -- Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River Valley -- Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River -- History.
Mississippi River Valley -- History.
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Subject Stream ecology -- Mississippi River -- History.
Human ecology -- Mississippi River -- History.
Mississippi River -- Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River Valley -- Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River -- History.
Mississippi River Valley -- History.
Descript xii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
ISBN 9780195316919 (hardcover)
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