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A new history of Mississippi /
Creating the first comprehensive narrative of Mississippi since the bicentennial history was published in 1976, Dennis J. Mitchell recounts the vibrant and turbulent history of a Deep South state. The author has condensed the massive scholarship produced since that time into an appealing narrative,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Geographical introduction: the place
- Rise and fall of Indian culture
- Frontier and borderland
- Mississippi territory
- Frontier democracy to slave society
- Cotton kingdom
- Civil War: disaster and freedom
- Reconstruction: war by other means
- Redemption and black subjection
- Attempted revolt of the rednecks
- Segregation: red, yellow, black, and white
- War, depression, and environmental restoration
- World War II, economic improvement, and social confusion
- A closed society's response to challenge
- The civil rights movement and white defiance
- Mississippi and the modern world.