Mississippi : a history /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom :
John Wiley & Sons Inc.,
2015.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Mississippi : the name and the place
- Two worlds collide : Spanish explorers and American indians
- French colonies
- The British period, 1763-1781
- Spanish rule, 1781-1798
- The territorial period, 1798-1817
- The new state, 1817-1832
- Antebellum politics
- Antebellum life
- Mounting sectional strife
- Secession and Civil War
- Reconstruction in Mississippi
- Bourbons and populists
- Into the twentieth century : economic and social trends
- Progressive "rednecks"
- A new era, the 1920s
- The Depression years
- A rich cultural heritage
- The World War II era
- The fifties
- Religious life
- The second Reconstruction
- Times of transition
- The social environment
- Recent political trends
- Tumultuous trends in education
- Recent economic trends
- Into the twenty-first century
- Living in the twenty-first century
- Appendix I: European rulers with relation to Mississippi during the colonial and territorial periods
- Appendix II: Members of the U.S. Congress, 1817-1861
- Appendix III: Mississippi symbols and facts
- Appendix IV: Total population, 1800-2010
- Appendix V: Racial population changes, 1800-2010.