Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana: St. Bernard Parish (St. Bernard): Series 1, Police jury minutes. (6 v.)
Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana: Police jury minutes. (6 v. )
Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana: St. Bernard Parish (St. Bernard): Series 1, Police jury minutes. (6 v.)
Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Transcriptions of Parish Records of Louisiana: Jefferson Parish (Gretna): Series 1, Police jury minutes. (13 v. in 14)
Author: Louisiana Historical Records SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
The Place with No Edge
Author: Adam MandelmanPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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 produced interdependence with—rather than independence from—the environment. Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River delta is one of the most dynamic landscapes in North America. From the eighteenth-century establishment of the first French fort below New Orleans to the creation of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan in the 2000s, people have attempted to harness and master this landscape through technology. Mandelman examines six specific interventions employed in the delta over time: levees, rice flumes, pullboats, geophysical surveys, dredgers, and petroleum cracking. He demonstrates that even as people seemed to gain control over the environment, they grew more deeply intertwined with—and vulnerable to—it. The greatest folly, Mandelman argues, is to believe that technology affords mastery. Environmental catastrophes of coastal land loss and petrochemical pollution may appear to be disconnected, but both emerged from the same fantasy of harnessing nature to technology. Similarly, the levee system’s failures and the subsequent deluge after Hurricane Katrina owe as much to centuries of human entanglement with the delta as to global warming’s rising seas and strengthening storms. The Place with No Edge advocates for a deeper understanding of humans’ relationship with nature. It provides compelling evidence that altering the environment—whether to make it habitable, profitable, or navigable —inevitably brings a response, sometimes with unanticipated consequences. Mandelman encourages a mindfulness of the ways that our inventions engage with nature and a willingness to intervene in responsible, respectful ways.
Library Accessions
Author: United States. Federal Works Agency. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Library Catalog
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
W. P. A. Technical Series
Author: United States. Work Projects AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.