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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