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A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans Paperback - 2006
by Kelman, Ari
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- Title A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
- Author Kelman, Ari
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Date 2006-05-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0520234332
- ISBN 9780520234338 / 0520234332
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.97 x 6.05 x 0.76 in (22.78 x 15.37 x 1.93 cm)
- Reading level 1540
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: Louisiana
- Locality: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Library of Congress subjects Urban ecology (Sociology) - Louisiana - New, Human ecology - Louisiana - New Orleans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005035214
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.760
From the publisher
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"New Orleans' Mississippi levee, as Kelman explains in this fascinating study, is more than a pile of dirt. It is the key to unraveling the historical dialectic between a great river and an essentially amphibious city. It is also the monumental space of New Orleans' past, where dark plots and heroic dreams remain forever entangled."--Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
"Kelman has written a pioneering environmental history of the evolving relationship between one of the nation's oldest and most exceptional cities, New Orleans, and our greatest river, the Mississippi. For New Orleans, the river offered challenges and opportunities alike, providing the lifeblood of the city's commerce and a signature symbol of its identity even as it also brought floods, disease, and death. It is a fascinating story."--William Cronon, author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
"Kelman makes elegant sense of a story as tangled as the Louisiana bayous and tells his tale with a verve to rival that of New Orleans itself. A strong addition to American environmental history."--John R. McNeill, author of Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
"Kelman has written a pioneering environmental history of the evolving relationship between one of the nation's oldest and most exceptional cities, New Orleans, and our greatest river, the Mississippi. For New Orleans, the river offered challenges and opportunities alike, providing the lifeblood of the city's commerce and a signature symbol of its identity even as it also brought floods, disease, and death. It is a fascinating story."--William Cronon, author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
"Kelman makes elegant sense of a story as tangled as the Louisiana bayous and tells his tale with a verve to rival that of New Orleans itself. A strong addition to American environmental history."--John R. McNeill, author of Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World