The Big Muddy : an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina / Christopher Morris.
Publication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: xii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780195316919 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
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- GE155.M57 M67 2012
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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.