The place with no edge : an intimate history of people, technology, and the Mississippi River Delta /
"The Place with No Edge is the story about three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and profit from some of the youngest, most dynamic, and persistently sodden land in North America: the Mississippi River Delta, that vast watery flatlands in which New Orleans was founded. Little did Euro-Ame...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | The natural world of the Gulf South
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the place with no edge
- Containing the river
- Inviting water
- Harvesting cypress
- Wetland oil
- Perforating wetlands
- The leaking landscape
- Conclusion : on the edge of intimacy.
