| Main Title |
Transforming New Orleans and its environs : centuries of change / |
| Other Authors |
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| Publisher |
University of Pittsburgh Press, |
| Year Published |
2000 |
| OCLC Number |
45129225 |
| ISBN |
0822941341; 9780822941347; 082295740X; 9780822957409 |
| Subjects |
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Louisiana--New Orleans Region ;
Human ecology--Louisiana--New Orleans Region--History ;
Urbanisatie ;
Milieuverandering ;
Menselijke invloed ;
Humanèokologie ;
Stadtgeographie ;
New Orleans
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EMBM |
GF504.L8T73 2000 |
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NRMRL/GWERD Library/Ada,OK |
03/15/2006 |
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| Collation |
x, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Transforming the lower Mississippi River Valley / Craig E. Colten -- Making the city inevitable: Native Americans and the geography of New Orleans / Tristram R. Kidder -- Impenetrable but easy: the French transformation of the lower Mississippi Valley and the founding of New Orleans / Christopher Morris -- Forests and other river perils / Ari Kelman -- Subduing nature through engineering: Caleb G. Forshey and the levees-only policy, 1851-1881 / George S. Pabis -- Historical perspective on crevasses, levees, and the Mississippi River / Donald W. Davis -- Perspective, power, and priorities: New Orleans and the Mississippi River Flood of 1927 / Gay M. Gomez -- In the wake of Hurricane Betsy / Todd Shallat -- Too much of a good thing: industrial pollution in the lower Mississippi River / Craig E. Colten -- Baton Rouge: the making (and breaking) of a petrochemical paradise / Raymond J. Burby -- Popular geography of illness in the industrial corridor / Barbara Allen -- Fish diversity in a heavily industrialized stretch of the lower Mississippi River / H.L. Bart. |
