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1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Transforming the lower Mississippi River Valley / Craig E. Colten -- Part 1: Transformation before urbanization. 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 -- Part 2: Environment in service of the city. 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 -- Part 3: Growing demands of the city. Perspective, power, and priorities : New Orleans and the Mississippi River Flood of 1927 / Gay M. Gomez ; In the wake of Hurricane Betsy / Todd Shallat -- Part 4: Response to environmental change. 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 ; The 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Louisiana -- New Orleans. |
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Human ecology -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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History. |
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Colten, Craig E., editor.
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| Added Title |
Transforming New Orleans & its environs |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Transforming New Orleans and its environs. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2000 0822941341 (DLC) 00011648 (OCoLC)45129225 |
| ISBN |
9780822972198 electronic book |
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0822972190 electronic book |
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0822941341 |
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9780822941347 |
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082295740X |
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9780822957409 |
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