A MISSISSIPPI READER; SELECTED ARTICLES FROM THE JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY.

Gonzales, John Edmond (editor). Mississippi Historical Society. Robert Haynes; Percy Rainwater; William Hamilton; Charles Lowery; Richard McLemore; Laura Sturdivant; James McLendon; Archer Jones; L. Marshall Hall; John Gonzales; Melvin Urofsky; Willie Halsell; May Spencer Ringold; A. Elizabeth Taylor; Holmes Adams; William McCain; John Skates; Alfred Stone; Charlotte Capers (contributors).

Published by Jackson, MS: Mississippi Historical Society, 1980.

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Ex-public library copy. xvi, 328 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Green dust jacket, color fading to spine with dark impression from removed shelf sticker near heel. Green cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine, slight scuffing at spine ends, slender impressions from removed tape strips at top and bottoms of boards with associated light impressions also on front and rear free endpapers. Library stamps upon top edge; stamp on front pastedown; paper remnants from removed pocket on front free endpaper; stamp and pencil markings on title page with swath of obtrusive black marker partially obscuring bar code sticker at top, associated color run from marker on opposing half-title verso and onto copyright page; no other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With Acknowledgements, Explanatory Note, Introduction, Contributors, and Index. Text comprised of various essays divided into three parts as follows. [PART 1] - MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY TO STATEHOOD: "The Disposal of Lands in the Mississippi Territory" by Robert V. Haynes; "Indian Missions and Missionaries" by Percy L. Rainwater; "Mississippi 1817: A Sociological and Economic Analysis" by William B. Hamilton; "The Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory, 1798-1819" by Charles D. Lowery; "The Division of the Mississippi Territory" by Richard A. McLemore. [PART 2] - MISSISSIPPI STATEHOOD TO THE CONSTITUTION OF 1890: The Development of the Lyceum Movement in Mississippi" by Laura D. S. Sturdivant; "John A. Quitman, Fire-Eating Governor" by James H. McLendon; "The Vicksburg Campaign" by Archer Jones; "William L. Sharkey and Reconstruction, 1886-1873" by L. Marshall Hall; "Reminiscences of a Mississippian: Henry Stuart Foote" by John E. Gonzales; "Blanche K. Bruce: United States Senator, 1875-1881" by Melvin I. Urofsky; "Democratic Dissentions in Mississippi, 1878-1882" by Willie D. Halsell; "Senator James Zachariah George of Mississippi: Bourbon or Liberal?" by May Spencer Ringold. [PART 3] - TWENTIETH CENTURY MISSISSIPPI: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Mississippi, 1890-1920" by A. Elizabeth Taylor; "Writers of Greenville, Mississippi, 1915-1950" by Holmes Adams; "Theodore Gilmore Bilbo and the Mississippi Delta" by William D. McCain; "Fred Sullens and Prohibition" by John R. Skates, Jr.; "Fact and Tradition in Southern History" by Alfred H. Stone; and "Appendix: The Archives and History Building" by Charlotte Capers. Seller Inventory # PXZP-14237

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Title: A MISSISSIPPI READER; SELECTED ARTICLES FROM...
Publisher: Jackson, MS: Mississippi Historical Society, 1980.
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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