The Big Muddy
Subtitle: an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina
By: Christopher Morris
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195316919
Subjects: Human ecology; Environmental conditions; Stream ecology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Valley of Mud; title: Knee Deep in Water and Snakes; title: Rice; title: The Rise of New Orleans and the Fall of Natchez; title: Consolidation, Transformation, Conservation; title: King Cotton Meets Big Muddy; title: The Cotton Kingdom's Edges Made and Unmade; title: Engineering the River of Empire; title: Symptoms of a Pathological Landscape; title: Cotton, Chemicals, Catfish, Crawfish; title: Nature's Return : Hurricane Katrina and the Future of the Big Muddy.