The Mississippi Encyclopedia (EPUB Single)

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Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage TrustThe perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present.The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
1,600 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781496811578
Related ISBNs:
9781628466928
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Reference, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Ted Ownby
Edited by:
Charles Reagan Wilson
Edited by:
Ann J. Abadie
Edited by:
Odie Lindsey
Edited by:
James G. Thomas Jr.

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