Liberal Arts Faculty Books
Mississippi Encyclopedia
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Description
The 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.
ISBN
9781628466928
Publication Date
5-1-2017
Relational Format
book
Department
Southern Studies
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi Press
Disciplines
American Studies | United States History
Recommended Citation
Ownby, Ted M.; Wilson, Charles Reagan; Abadie, Ann J.; and Lindsey, Odie, "Mississippi Encyclopedia" (2017). Liberal Arts Faculty Books. 123.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/123