TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morris,Christopher
TI  - The Big Muddy: an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina 
SN  - 9780195316919 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
AV  - GE155.M57 M67 2012
U1  - 304.20977 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Stream ecology
KW  - Mississippi River
KW  - History
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Environmental conditions
KW  - Mississippi River Valley
N1  - 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
ER  -