The Big Muddy an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press
[2012]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44340540*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
