Title The Big Muddy : an environmental history of the Mississippi and its peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina / Christopher Morris.

Publication Info.

Online access
Online ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this ebook

Item Status

Description	1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Mississippi River -- Environmental conditions.
	Mississippi River.
	Environmental conditions.
	Mississippi River Region.
	Mississippi River Valley -- Environmental conditions.
	Mississippi River Valley.
	Stream ecology -- Mississippi River -- History.
	Stream ecology.
	History.
	Human ecology -- Mississippi River -- History.
	Human ecology.
	Mississippi River -- History.
	Mississippi River Valley -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Morris, Christopher (Christopher Charles). Big Muddy. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©2012 9780195316919 (DLC) 2012003182 (OCoLC)500794362
ISBN	9780199717903 (electronic book)
	0199717907 (electronic book)
	9781283739634 (MyiLibrary)
	1283739631 (MyiLibrary)
	9780195316919
	0195316916