A New History of Mississippi [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Mitchell Dennis J
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| Titolo: |
A New History of Mississippi [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (606 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 911.762 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mississippi -- History |
| Mississippi -- Politics and government | |
| Mississippi -- Social conditions | |
| Regions & Countries - Americas | |
| History & Archaeology | |
| United States Local History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Geographical Introduction: The Place; Chapter One: Rise and Fall of Indian Culture; Chapter Two: Frontier and Borderland; Chapter Three: Mississippi Territory; Chapter Four: Frontier Democracy to Slave Society; Chapter Five: Cotton Kingdom; Chapter Six: Civil War: Disaster and Freedom; Chapter Seven; Reconstruction: War by Other Means; Chapter Eight: Redemption and Black Subjection; Chapter Nine: Attempted Revolt of the Rednecks; Chapter Ten: Segregation: Red, Yellow, Black, and White |
| Chapter Eleven: War, Depression, and Environmental RestorationChapter Twelve: World War II, Economic Improvement, and Social Confusion; Chapter Thirteen: A Closed Society's Response to Challenge; Chapter Fourteen: The Civil Rights Movement and White Defiance; Chapter Fifteen: Mississippi and the Modern World; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, which incorporates people missing from many previous histories including American Indians, women, African Americans, and a diversity of other minority groups. This is the story of a place and its people, history makers and ordinary citizens alike. Mississippi's rich flora and fauna are also centr |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A New History of Mississippi |
| ISBN: | 1-61703-977-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464853603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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