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Author: Maude Schuyler Clay
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781578061778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA haunting photo project and prose involving recording and preservation of Mississippi Delta landscapes features its rapidly disappearing indigenous structures: mule barns, field churches, cotton gins, tenant houses, and railroad stations. 75 illustrations.
Author: Debjani Bhattacharyya
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-24
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 1108681727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing tool critical in making land and water discrete categories of bureaucratic and legal management, was at the heart of colonial urbanization and the technologies behind the draining of Calcutta. The story of ecological change is narrated alongside emergent practices of land speculation and transformation in colonial law. Bhattacharyya demonstrates how this history continues to shape our built environments with devastating consequences, as shown in the Bay of Bengal's receding coastline.
Author: Maude Schuyler Clay
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781628460087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew photographs from the beloved creator of Delta Land
Author: Franz Krause
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781800734166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents 'delta life' with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops 'delta life' as a metaphor for approaching continual and intersecting sociocultural, economic and material transformations more widely. The book revolves around questions of hydrosociality, volatility, rhythms and scale. It thereby yields insights into people's lives that conventional, hydrological approaches to deltas cannot provide.
Author: David Lewis Cohn
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Janelle Collins
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2015-11-15
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1557286876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by the Arkansas Review’s “What Is the Delta?” series of articles, Defining the Delta collects fifteen essays from scholars in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to describe and define this important region. Here are essays examining the Delta’s physical properties, boundaries, and climate from a geologist, archeologist, and environmental historian. The Delta is also viewed through the lens of the social sciences and humanities—historians, folklorists, and others studying the connection between the land and its people, in particular the importance of agriculture and the culture of the area, especially music, literature, and food. Every turn of the page reveals another way of seeing the seven-state region that is bisected by and dependent on the Mississippi River, suggesting ultimately that there are myriad ways of looking at, and defining, the Delta.
Author: Utah. Secretary of State
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wendy McDaris
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781604730890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stunning photographs in this collection capture the land, people, and ever-present spirits of those who live along the Mississippi Delta.
Author: National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2001-06-12
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0309170729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the world's population exceeds an incredible 6 billion people, governmentsâ€"and scientistsâ€"everywhere are concerned about the prospects for sustainable development. The science academies of the three most populous countries have joined forces in an unprecedented effort to understand the linkage between population growth and land-use change, and its implications for the future. By examining six sites ranging from agricultural to intensely urban to areas in transition, the multinational study panel asks how population growth and consumption directly cause land-use change, and explore the general nature of the forces driving the transformations. Growing Populations, Changing Landscapes explains how disparate government policies with unintended consequences and globalization effects that link local land-use changes to consumption patterns and labor policies in distant countries can be far more influential than simple numerical population increases. Recognizing the importance of these linkages can be a significant step toward more effective environmental management.
Author: Mary J. Centro
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738557564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHome to a community of hardworking farmers and mill workers, the village of Delta stood along the banks of the Mohawk River until it was evacuated by the state to raise the water in the Erie Canal. Before the flooding of the river, Delta was a small country village with the same postmaster for over 30 years and families farming the same land for generations. In order to raise the water, the state approved the construction of five reservoirs across New York. The town was evacuated soon after, and the land that generations of residents toiled over now sits at the bottom of Lake Delta.
