Natural World of the Gulf South – serie
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6 produkter
Louisiana Coastal Atlas
Resources, Economies, and Demographics
Inbunden, 2017
844 kr
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Through a wide range of demographic, economic, social, and environmental data, A Louisiana Coastal Atlas shows cartographically how the inherent resilience of coastal communities manifests itself over time. By illustrating the adaptability of residents to their environment and economy, this …
Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South
Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience
Av Cindy Ermus
Inbunden, 2018
524 kr
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Hurricanes, floods, oil spills, disease, and disappearing wetlands are some of the many environmental disasters that impact the Gulf South. The contributors to Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South explore the threat, frequency, and management of this region's disasters from the mid-nineteenth …
Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Inbunden, 2017
524 kr
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Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905. Linking local epidemics to the city's place in the Atlantic world, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans analyses how …
Tempest
Hurricane Naming and American Culture
Av Liz Skilton, Craig E. Colten m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
639 kr
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Liz Skilton's innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. In 1953, the U.S. Weather Bureau adopted female names to identify hurricanes and other tropical storms. Within two years, that convention came …
American Energy, Imperiled Coast
Oil and Gas Development in Louisiana's Wetlands
Inbunden, 2014
565 kr
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In the post-World War II era, Louisiana's coastal wetlands underwent an industrial transformation that placed the region at the center of America's energy-producing corridor. By the twenty-first century the Louisiana Gulf Coast supplied nearly one-third of America's oil and gas, accounted for half …
Place with No Edge
An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta
Av Adam Mandelman, Craig E. Colten m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
639 kr
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In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people's use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has …
