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Yellow Fever, Race, And Ecology In Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

by Urmi Engineer Willoughby

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans. Linking local epidemics to the city's place in the Atlantic world, Willoughby analyses how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar, slavery, and urban development.
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Environmental Disaster In The Gulf South - Two Centuries Of Catastrophe, Risk, And Resilience

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 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 century to the present.
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Thousand Ways Denied - The Environmental Legacy Of Oil In Louisiana

by John T. Arnold

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 From the hill country in the north to the marshy lowlands in the south, Louisiana and its citizens have long enjoyed the hard-earned fruits of the oil and gas industry’s labor. Economic prosperity flowed from pioneering exploration as the industry heralded engineering achievements and innovative production technologies. Those successes, however, often came at the expense of other natural resources, leading to contamination and degradation of land and water. In A Thousand Ways Denied, John T. Arnold documents the oil industry’s sharp interface with Louisiana’s environment. Drawing on government, corporate, and personal files, many previously untapped, he traces the history of oil-field practices and their ecological impacts in tandem with battles over regulation. Arnold reveals that in the early twentieth century, Louisiana helped lead the nation in conservation policy, instituting some of the first programs to sustain its vast wealth of natural resources. But with the proliferation of oil output, government agencies splintered between those promoting production and others committed to preventing pollution. As oil’s economic and political strength grew, regulations commonly went unobserved and unenforced. Over the decades, oil, saltwater, and chemicals flowed across the ground, through natural drainages, and down waterways. Fish and wildlife fled their habitats, and drinking-water supplies were ruined. In the wetlands, drilling facilities sat like factories in the midst of a maze of interconnected canals dredged to support exploration, manufacture, and transportation of oil and gas. In later years, debates raged over the contribution of these activities to coastal land loss. Oil is an inseparable part of Louisiana’s culture and politics, Arnold asserts, but the state’s original vision for safeguarding its natural resources has become compromised. He urges a return to those foundational conservation principles. Otherwise, Louisiana risks the loss of viable uses of its land and, in some places, its very way of life.
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Place With No Edge - An Intimate History Of People, Technology, And The Mississippi River Delta

by Adam Mandelman

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 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. Adam Mandelman finds that people's use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with - rather than independence from - the environment.
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Place With No Edge - An Intimate History Of People, Technology, And The Mississippi River Delta

by Adam Mandelman

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 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. Adam Mandelman finds that people's use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with - rather than independence from - the environment.
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Tempest - Hurricane Naming And American Culture

by Liz Skilton

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 An innovative study that tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. In Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture, Liz Skilton blends gender studies with environmental history to analyse this often controversial tradition.
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Environmental Disaster In The Gulf South - Two Centuries Of Catastrophe, Risk, And Resilience

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 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 century to the present.
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Yellow Fever, Race, And Ecology In Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

by Urmi Engineer Willoughby

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans. Linking local epidemics to the city's place in the Atlantic world, Willoughby analyses how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar, slavery, and urban development.
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American Energy, Imperiled Coast - Oil And Gas Development In Louisiana''S Wetlands

by Jason P. Theriot

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 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 of the country''s refining capacity, and contributed billions of dollars to the U.S. economy. Today, thousands of miles of pipelines and related infrastructure link the state''s coast to oil and gas consumers nationwide. During the course of this historic development, however, the dredging of pipeline canals accelerated coastal erosion. Currently, 80 percent of the United States'' wetland loss occurs on Louisiana''s coast despite the fact that the state is home to only 40 percent of the nation''s wetland acreage, making evident the enormous unin-tended environmental cost associated with producing energy from the Gulf Coast. In American Energy, Imperiled Coast Jason P. Theriot explores the tension between oil and gas development and the land-loss crisis in Louisiana. His book offers an engaging analysis of both the impressive, albeit ecologically destructive, engineering feats that characterized industrial growth in the region and the mounting environmental problems that threaten south Louisiana''s communities, culture, and "working" coast. As a historian and coastal Louisiana native, Theriot explains how pipeline technology enabled the expansion of oil and gas delivery -- examining previously unseen photographs and company records -- and traces the industry''s far-reaching environmental footprint in the wetlands. Through detailed research presented in a lively and accessible narrative, Theriot pieces together decades of political, economic, social, and cultural undertakings that clashed in the 1980s and 1990s, when local citizens, scientists, politicians, environmental groups, and oil and gas interests began fighting over the causes and consequences of coastal land loss. The mission to restore coastal Louisiana ultimately collided with the perceived economic necessity of expanding offshore oil and gas development at the turn of the twenty-first century. Theriot''s book bridges the gap between these competing objectives. From the discovery of oil and gas below the marshes around coastal salt domes in the 1920s and 1930s to the emergence of environmental sciences and policy reforms in the 1970s to the vast repercussions of the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, American Energy, Imperiled Coast ultimately reveals that the natural and man-made forces responsible for rapid environmental change in Louisiana''s wetlands over the past century can only be harnessed through collaboration between public and private entities.
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American Energy, Imperiled Coast - Oil And Gas Development In Louisiana''S Wetlands

by Jason P. Theriot

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 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 of the country''s refining capacity, and contributed billions of dollars to the U.S. economy. Today, thousands of miles of pipelines and related infrastructure link the state''s coast to oil and gas consumers nationwide. During the course of this historic development, however, the dredging of pipeline canals accelerated coastal erosion. Currently, 80 percent of the United States'' wetland loss occurs on Louisiana''s coast despite the fact that the state is home to only 40 percent of the nation''s wetland acreage, making evident the enormous unin-tended environmental cost associated with producing energy from the Gulf Coast. In American Energy, Imperiled Coast Jason P. Theriot explores the tension between oil and gas development and the land-loss crisis in Louisiana. His book offers an engaging analysis of both the impressive, albeit ecologically destructive, engineering feats that characterized industrial growth in the region and the mounting environmental problems that threaten south Louisiana''s communities, culture, and "working" coast. As a historian and coastal Louisiana native, Theriot explains how pipeline technology enabled the expansion of oil and gas delivery -- examining previously unseen photographs and company records -- and traces the industry''s far-reaching environmental footprint in the wetlands. Through detailed research presented in a lively and accessible narrative, Theriot pieces together decades of political, economic, social, and cultural undertakings that clashed in the 1980s and 1990s, when local citizens, scientists, politicians, environmental groups, and oil and gas interests began fighting over the causes and consequences of coastal land loss. The mission to restore coastal Louisiana ultimately collided with the perceived economic necessity of expanding offshore oil and gas development at the turn of the twenty-first century. Theriot''s book bridges the gap between these competing objectives. From the discovery of oil and gas below the marshes around coastal salt domes in the 1920s and 1930s to the emergence of environmental sciences and policy reforms in the 1970s to the vast repercussions of the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, American Energy, Imperiled Coast ultimately reveals that the natural and man-made forces responsible for rapid environmental change in Louisiana''s wetlands over the past century can only be harnessed through collaboration between public and private entities.
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The Place With No Edge - An Intimate History Of People, Technology, And The Mississippi River Delta

by Adam Mandelman

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 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. Adam Mandelman finds that people's use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with - rather than independence from - the environment.
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Francis Pavy - Visions

by Alexandre Leupin

27,03€

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 A book born out of interviews Alexandre Leupin had with Francis X. Pavy, a significant painter of Southern culture with a career spanning five decades. The book begins with a general introduction situating Pavy in the history of painting, reproduces Leupin and Pavy's interviews over the years, and presents Pavyâ€™s sources of artistic inspiration.
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Tempest - Hurricane Naming And American Culture

by Liz Skilton

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 An innovative study that tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. In Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture, Liz Skilton blends gender studies with environmental history to analyse this often controversial tradition.
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Claude Before Time And Space - Poems

by Claudia Emerson

43,26€

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 In her final collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson quietly but fiercely explores the themes of mortality and time. This illuminating body of work displays a master poet at the height of her craft.
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Yellow Fever, Race, And Ecology In Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

by Urmi Engineer Willoughby

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 Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans. Linking local epidemics to the city's place in the Atlantic world, Willoughby analyses how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar, slavery, and urban development.
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Environmental Disaster In The Gulf South - Two Centuries Of Catastrophe, Risk, And Resilience

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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 century to the present.
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The Caddos And Their Ancestors - Archaeology And The Native People Of Northwest Louisiana

by Jeffrey S. Girard

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 Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last Ice Age, through the formation of the Caddo culture in the tenth century BCE, to the early nineteenth century.
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The Louisiana Urban Gardener - A Beginner'S Guide To Growing Vegetables And Herbs

by Kathryn K. Fontenot

37,84€

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 Whether your garden consists of large raised beds or a few pots on the patio, Kathryn Fontenot's The Louisiana Urban Gardener offers easy guidelines and useful tools to jump-start and maintain small yet bountiful gardens.
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Theodore Roosevelt'S Ghost - The History And Memory Of An American Icon

by Michael Patrick Cullinane

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 A century after his death, Theodore Roosevelt remains one of the most recognizable figures in US history. In the most comprehensive examination of Roosevelt's legacy, Michael Patrick Cullinane explores the frequent refashioning of this American icon in popular memory.
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Armies In Gray - The Organizational History Of The Confederate States Army In The Civil War

by Dan C. Fullerton

214,95€

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 Provides an indispensable reference work on Confederate forces over the entire course of the Civil War. Armies in Gray details the development and organisation of the southern armies, their evolution over the course of the conflict, their command structure, and their geographic assignment and placement.
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A Louisiana Coastal Atlas - Resources, Economies, And Demographics

by Scott A. Hemmerling

81,11€

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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.
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American Energy, Imperiled Coast - Oil And Gas Development In Louisiana'S Wetlands

by Jason P. Theriot

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 Explores the tension between oil and gas development and the land-loss crisis in Louisiana. Jason Theriot offers an engaging analysis of both the impressive, albeit ecologically destructive, engineering feats that characterized industrial growth in the region and the mounting environmental problems that threaten south Louisiana.

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