UID:
almafu_9959242610602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (285 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781322025421
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1322025428
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9780822972198
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0822972190
Serie:
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
Inhalt:
Human settlement of the Lower Mississippi River Valley-especially in New Orleans, the region\u2019s largest metropolis-has produced profound and dramatic environmental change. From prehistoric midden building to late-twentieth century industrial pollution, Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs traces through history the impact of human activity upon the environment of this fascinating and unpredictable region.In eleven essays, scholars across disciplines--including anthropology, architecture, history, natural history, and geography--chronicle how societies have worked to transform untamed wetlands and volatile floodplains into a present-day sprawling urban center and industrial complex, and how they have responded to the environmental changes brought about by the disruption of the natural setting.This new text follows the trials of native and colonial settlers as they struggled to shape the environment to fit the needs of urbanization. It demonstrates how the Mississippi River, while providing great avenues for commerce, transportation, and colonization also presented the region\u2019s greatest threat to urban centers, and details how engineers set about taming the mighty river. Also featured is an analysis of the impact of modern New Orleans upon the surrounding rural parishes and the effect urban pollution has had on the city\u2019s water supply and aquatic life.
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Transforming the lower Mississippi River Valley /
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Transformation before urbanization.
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Making the city inevitable : Native Americans and the geography of New Orleans /
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Impenetrable but easy : the French transformation of the lower Mississippi Valley and the founding of New Orleans /
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Environment in service of the city.
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Forests and other river perils /
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Subduing nature through engineering : Caleb G. Forshey and the levees-only policy, 1851-1881 /
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Historical perspective on crevasses, levees, and the Mississippi River /
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Growing demands of the city.
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Perspective, power, and priorities : New Orleans and the Mississippi River Flood of 1927 /
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In the wake of Hurricane Betsy /
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Response to environmental change.
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Too much of a good thing : industrial pollution in the lower Mississippi River /
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Baton Rouge : the making (and breaking) of a petrochemical paradise /
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The popular geography of illness in the industrial corridor /
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Fish diversity in a heavily industrialized stretch of the lower Mississippi River /
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780822941347
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0822941341
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780822957409
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 082295740X
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
History
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Electronic books.
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