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The Mississippi Encyclopedia, Hardback Book

The Mississippi Encyclopedia Hardback

Edited by Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, James G. Thomas

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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.

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£73.50

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