The Mississippi Valley has been a place where the battle between water and land has been a constant for centuries. It has shaped the relationship between its inhabitants and their environment long before Hurricane Katrina, though of course these events have put the topic in the headlines and made this the preeminent issue shaping the region today. In this work, Christopher Morris takes a long view of the interaction between people and the wet landscape of theMississippi Valley from pre-contact hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society.
The Mississippi Valley has been a place where the battle between water and land has been a constant for centuries. It has shaped the relationship between its inhabitants and their environment long before Hurricane Katrina, though of course these events have put the topic in the headlines and made this the preeminent issue shaping the region today. In this work, Christopher Morris takes a long view of the interaction between people and the wet landscape of theMississippi Valley from pre-contact hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society.
Christopher Morris is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Vicksburg and Warren County, Mississippi, 1770-1860.
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Introduction: A Swim Down Big Muddy I. A Wet Place 1. Wet and Rich 2. Delta Seen and Not Seen 3. Into a Wet Land 4. Domestication 5. Colonization 6. Creolization II: Drying the Land 7. Transformation 8. Repression 9. Leaks 10. Levees III. A New Wet Land 11. Catfish, Crawfish, and Chemicals 12. The Return of Nature Notes Index
Introduction: A Swim Down Big Muddy I. A Wet Place 1. Wet and Rich 2. Delta Seen and Not Seen 3. Into a Wet Land 4. Domestication 5. Colonization 6. Creolization II: Drying the Land 7. Transformation 8. Repression 9. Leaks 10. Levees III. A New Wet Land 11. Catfish, Crawfish, and Chemicals 12. The Return of Nature Notes Index
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