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A new history of Mississippi /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Dennis J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Subjects:
Mississippi > History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.