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Follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. Adam Mandelman finds that people's use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with - rather than independence from - the environment.

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The Place with No Edge documents and interprets the environmental history of the Mississippi Delta in a way that also sheds light on the broader topic of human/environment interaction over time. Mandelman lays out the story of people reorganizing their environment, and in the process succumbing to the erroneous conclusion that they had managed to conquer and control nature in a more or less permanent way.

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    A Hardback by Adam Mandelman, Craig E. Colten

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      Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
      Publication Date: 4/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780807172834, 978-0807172834
      ISBN10: 0807172839
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      Human geography Historical geography Environmental science, engineering and technology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. Adam Mandelman finds that people's use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with - rather than independence from - the environment.

      Trade Review
      The Place with No Edge documents and interprets the environmental history of the Mississippi Delta in a way that also sheds light on the broader topic of human/environment interaction over time. Mandelman lays out the story of people reorganizing their environment, and in the process succumbing to the erroneous conclusion that they had managed to conquer and control nature in a more or less permanent way.

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