A New History of Mississippi /

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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mitchell, Dennis J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Histoire.
Mississippi > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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.

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