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american cities
Author_Ari Kelman
bayou
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disease
eco criticism
environment
environmental history
epidemic
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flooding
floods
frontier
geography
history
hurricane
katrina
landscape
levee
louisiana
mississippi river
natural disaster
nature
new orleans
nonfiction
poverty
race
river
riverbank
science
social issues
tributary
urban history
urban issues
urban planning
us history
water
yellow fever
Product details
- ISBN 9780520234338
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2006
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spaces play in shaping people's relationships with the natural world. Ari Kelman focuses on the battles fought over New Orleans's waterfront, examining the link between a river and its city and tracking the conflict between public and private control of the river. He describes the impact of floods, disease, and changing technologies on New Orleans's interactions with the Mississippi. Considering how the city grew distant - culturally and spatially - from the river, this book argues that urban areas provide a rich source for understanding people's connections with nature, and in turn, nature's impact on human history.
Ari Kelman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Denver.
