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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Prologue: Nature's Highway to Market | 1 | |
| 1 | A Batture Laid Out for the Particular Use of the Public | 19 |
| 2 | Human Genius, Organed with Machinery | 50 |
| 3 | The Necropolis of the South | 87 |
| 4 | Triumphs in the Cause of Advancement and Progress | 119 |
| 5 | An Act of God | 157 |
| Epilogue: The Simple Needs of Automobiles | 197 | |
| Notes | 223 | |
| Works Cited | 253 | |
| Index | 273 |
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Jalbert Levesque
reviewed A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans on June 18, 2007
A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
This is an academic history of New Orleans and the Mississippi River, and can bog down in some spots.
But the historical episodes mostly sucked me right in. The author takes some of the seminal moments in the city's history -- the arrival of the steamboat around 1812, the yellow fever epidemic, the decision to blow up the levee south of the city in 1927 and destroy the homes of 10,000 rural Louisianans -- and looks at them from the perspective of the river.
This is one of a growing number of environmental histories of American cities (William Cronon's history of Chicago is probably the best known), and it tells a great tale.
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