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James C. Cobb - The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity - 9780195089134 - V9780195089134
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The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity

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Description for The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352.
A comprehensive history of the deep South - the bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers - from the first white settlement in the 1820s to the present. A portrait of the development and survival of a society and economy often seen as the most extreme in the South - an area where, despite the large black majority, whites have kept their grip on power throughout every era.

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Weight
352 g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195089134
SKU
V9780195089134
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-99

About James C. Cobb
James C. Cobb is Bernadotte Schmitt Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His books include The Selling of the South, Industrialization and Southern Society, and The New Deal and the South.

Reviews for The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity
This is a solidly researched and well-written book that delineates one of the most disturbing chapters and places in American history. It deserves to be widely read not only as a story of this most southern place but also as a story of the United States.
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