Morris, Christopher

The Big Muddy : an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina / Christopher Morris. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2012. - xii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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.

9780195316919 (hardcover : acidfree paper)

2012003182


Stream ecology--History.--Mississippi River
Human ecology--History.--Mississippi River


Mississippi River--Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River Valley--Environmental conditions.
Mississippi River--History.
Mississippi River Valley--History.

GE155.M57 / M67 2012

304.20977