Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs
Colten, Craig![Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/151/1514822/CHSBZCOP031514822.jpg)
Human settlement of the Lower Mississippi River Valley -- especially in New Orleans, the region's largest metropolis -- has produced profound and dramatic environmental change. From prehistoric midden building to late twentieth-century industrial pollution, Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs traces through history the impact of human activity upon the environment of this fascinating and unpredictable region.In eleven essays, scholars ac...