Author: Publisher:
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Category : Sugar
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer
Author: Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer
Author: Primary Power for the Philippines
Author: Anastasio Lalota TeodoroPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The Philippine Agricultural Review
Author: Agricultural News Volume V January to December 1906
Author: Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West IndiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
I/EC
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Category : Chemistry, Technical
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
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Category : Chemistry, Technical
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
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Category : Chemistry, Technical
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
From Tally-Ho to Forest Home
Author: William D. ReevesPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467847364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This history of two plantations on the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge examines the people and places around the tiny town of Bayou Goula in Iberville Parish from 1699 to 2000. It describes the different governmental policies that shaped the land tenure of the region. In chapter 3 the book describes the Acadian settlement and how two free people of color purchased several farms and consolidated them into the Tally-Ho plantation. Later chapters described the John Hampden Randolphs and the John D. Murrells, both investors from Virginia. Chapter six describes the rise and fall of the community of Bayou Goula. Chapter seven describes the African-Americans along Bayou Goula. Some of the family relationships are identified. Links between workers in the twentieth century and workers in slavery appear. Chapter eight relies on memoirs of life at Tally-Ho and the community of Bayou Goula. It presents happy remembrances of things past. The chapter discusses education in the community, daily life, transportation, and relations between the families. Chapter nine describes the founding of the George M. Murrell Planting & Manufacturing Co., the major sugar grower and heir of the 19th century planters. Finally, the book discusses the 20th century successes and failures in the sugar business.
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.