The Levee Boards of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta: A Fight to Control the River and Region
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- May Bartlett (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
- Advisor
- Robert Brown
Abstract: This thesis traces the historical geography of local Mississippi River control in the
Yazoo Mississippi Delta from the 1850s through the present, dividing each distinct
period in its flood control history into spatio-temporal "landscape eras." Local
leaders in each of the Delta's historic landscape eras had slightly different strategies
for managing Mississippi River flooding, and these differences manifested
themselves on the Delta's physical, political, and economic landscape. Since the
spatial diffusion of power and resources in the Delta directly stemmed from the
region's flood control policies, those who controlled the river, controlled the region.
Today however, as each large flood event causes the nation to question the lower
Mississippi's current system of structural flood control, the Delta's historic power
structures are changing.
The Levee Boards of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta: A Fight to Control the River and Region
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- Publication
- Thesis
- Bartlett, M. (2012). The Levee Boards of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta: A Fight to Control the River and Region. Unpublished master's thesis. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Keywords
- Yazoo Mississippi Delta, Mississippi River Floods, American flood control history ,
levee board, levee district