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Tempest
Hurricane Naming and American Culture
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780807179963
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: LSU Press
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...
State of Disaster
A Historical Geography of Louisiana's Land Loss Crisis
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CA$54.95
ISBN: 9780807175705
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: LSU Press
State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana?s Land Loss Crisis explores Louisiana?s protracted efforts to restore and protect its coastal marshes, nearly always with minimal regard for the...
A Thousand Ways Denied
The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780807174043
Pub Date: November 2020
Imprint: LSU Press
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...
The Place with No Edge
An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780807172834
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: LSU Press
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...
Tempest
Hurricane Naming and American Culture
Price:
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780807171172
Pub Date: June 2019
Imprint: LSU Press
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...
Environmental History and the American South
A Reader
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CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780820333229
Pub Date: March 2009
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
These fifteen important essays provide entrée into the recent literature on the region as it indicates the variety of directions in which the field of environmental history is growing. The writings, which range in setting from the Texas plains to the Carolina Lowcountry, affirm the critical importance of human-environmental interactions.
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781628461671
Pub Date: October 2014
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
A history of overreaching, gridlock, intrigue, and the final catastrophic results along America's most vulnerable coastline
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
Price:
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781604732382
Pub Date: June 2009
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
A history of overreaching, gridlock, intrigue, and the final catastrophic results along America's most vulnerable coastline
A Louisiana Coastal Atlas
Resources, Economies, and Demographics
Price:
CA$101.95
ISBN: 9780807165881
Pub Date: March 2017
Imprint: LSU Press
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...
Southern Waters
The Limits to Abundance
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780807156506
Pub Date: October 2014
Imprint: LSU Press
Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding throughout the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina. But...
An Unnatural Metropolis
Wresting New Orleans from Nature
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780807132005
Pub Date: September 2006
Imprint: LSU Press
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city."...
The Road to Love Canal
Managing Industrial Waste before EPA
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780292711839
Pub Date: February 1995
Imprint: University of Texas Press
This book examines industrial waste disposal before the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970.
Second Wave
Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s
Price:
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9780820322186
Pub Date: September 2001
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression. These nine original case studies look at how World War II and its aftermath transformed the economy, culture, and politics of the South.
Tempest
Hurricane Naming and American Culture
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780807179963
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: LSU Press
State of Disaster
A Historical Geography of Louisiana's Land Loss Crisis
CA$54.95
ISBN: 9780807175705
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: LSU Press
A Thousand Ways Denied
The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780807174043
Pub Date: November 2020
Imprint: LSU Press
The Place with No Edge
An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780807172834
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: LSU Press
Tempest
Hurricane Naming and American Culture
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780807171172
Pub Date: June 2019
Imprint: LSU Press
Environmental History and the American South
A Reader
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780820333229
Pub Date: March 2009
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781628461671
Pub Date: October 2014
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781604732382
Pub Date: June 2009
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
A Louisiana Coastal Atlas
Resources, Economies, and Demographics
CA$101.95
ISBN: 9780807165881
Pub Date: March 2017
Imprint: LSU Press
Southern Waters
The Limits to Abundance
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780807156506
Pub Date: October 2014
Imprint: LSU Press
An Unnatural Metropolis
Wresting New Orleans from Nature
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780807132005
Pub Date: September 2006
Imprint: LSU Press
The Road to Love Canal
Managing Industrial Waste before EPA
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780292711839
Pub Date: February 1995
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Second Wave
Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9780820322186
Pub Date: September 2001
Imprint: University of Georgia Press