Mississippi's Piney Woods: A Human Perspective edited by Noel Polk
with essays by Harold K. Steen, John H. Napier III, Terry G.
Jordan, Grady McWhiney, Thomas D. Clark, Nollie W. Hickman, James
C. Downey, W. Kenneth Holditch, Thomas L. McHaney, William F.
Winter, Warren A. Flick, Milton B. Newton, Jr., Sidney McDaniel,
and Noel Polk. For years the Mississippi Piney Woods region has
gone virtually untouched by historians, though J. F. H. Claiborne
and James Street have made wonderful use of its colorful and
significant past. Only Nollie Hickman's Mississippi Harvest has
attempted to examine in full any aspect of the area's history and
culture in his study focusing on the area's important lumber
industry. This book, Mississippi's Piney Woods: A Human
Perspective, the papers from the first Crosby Memorial Lecture
Series at the University of Southern Mississippi, is a
groundbreaking volume in Mississippi studies in that it is an
attempt to open the Piney Woods to historical and cultural
scrutiny, and it is one of the first volumes on the subject of
Mississippi history to approach any area of the state from so many
diverse but complementary scholarly disciplines. Among the topics
explored by first-rate scholars are the area's geography, its
pioneer settlers' roots in Europe, its lumber industry, its
politics, its music, its economics, and its literature. As a whole,
the volume demonstrates the ways in which each of these topics and
approaches intersects with and impinges upon the others, and thus
suggests the ways in which the life of any region is determined not
by any single force, even when that force is in some ways
overwhelming, but by a complex and subtle intermingling of a
variety of vital forces which exert pressures on the life of the
individual from many different sources. This volume undertakes to
explore these diverse forces, and thus to show how they converge
and interact to shape the lives of human beings in any age and
region. Noel Polk is Professor Emeritus of English at Mississippi
State University and the editor of The Mississippi Quarterly.
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