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As Eudora Welty observed, "One place understood helps us know all
places better". Nowhere is this more apropos than in her home state
of Mississippi. Although accounts of its architecture have long
conjured visions of white-columned antebellum mansions, its towns,
buildings, and landscapes are ultimately far more complex,
engaging, and challenging. This guidebook surveys a range of such
locations, from Native American mounds and villages to plantation
outbuildings that bear witness to the lives of enslaved African
Americans, from twentieth-century enclaves built for sawmill
workers and oil tycoons to neighborhoods that bolstered black
Mississippians during segregation, and from the vernacular
streetscapes of small towns to modern architecture in Greenville,
Meridian, Jackson, and Biloxi. In the pages of this latest volume
in the celebrated Buildings of the United States series, newly
redesigned in a more user-friendly format, readers will come to
know the history of close to 600 sites, illustrated by 250
photographs (most in full color) and 29 maps, including such
wide-ranging places as Longwood and the Museum of African American
History and Culture in Natchez, Vicksburg National Military Park,
Winterville Mounds, the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, the
Neshoba County Jail and Courthouse, the University of Mississippi
and William Faulkner's Rowan Oak in Oxford, and the homes of Medgar
and Myrlie Evers and Eudora Welty in Jackson.
Explains how to use and care for a crosscut saw, including
cleaning, straightening, jointing, fitting rakers, pointing up
cutter teeth, setting teeth, and testing the saw. The report
includes many photographs and drawings. It also includes a glossary
of terms.
The book offers a comparative analysis of policy representation in five Western Democracies: France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the USA.
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