Christopher Morris

The Big Muddy

An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780190610760
• ISBN-10: 019061076X
• Artikelnr.: 47869688

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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