| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.1

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This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain. By Mikko Saikku. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xvii + 373 pp. Maps, photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $54.95

From the Peabody Hotel in Memphis to Catfish Row in Vicksburg, in the heart of the cotton kingdom where spidery tributaries of the Yazoo drain 4.4 million alluvial acres, the ancient "Delta" of the Mississippi is one of the nation's most storied landscapes. Here the canebrakes and bottomland hardwoods have sheltered a succession of civilizations for at least twelve thousand years. Historians have written impressively about the region during slavery and reconstruction, but few have grounded the study in ecological theory or measured the modern Yazoo against the biology of its natural setting. By taking this longer view, and by considering the millennia of human-induced change that predated big engineering, Professor Mikko Saikku of Helsinki promises a deeper understanding of environmental problems today.

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