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Contents List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii c h a pter one Environmental History and the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain 1 c h a pter two A True Ecological Complex 26 c h a pter three Enter Homo sapiens 52 c h a pter four The Creation of a Cotton Kingdom 87 x Contents ch a pter five Taming the Rivers 138 ch a pter six Bounties of the Bottomland 165 ch a pter seven A Transformed Landscape 220 Notes 257 Bibliography 313 Index 359 ...

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