Mississippi
Subtitle: a history
By: Westley F. Busbee, Jr
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: John Wiley/Blackwell
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9781118755907
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-495) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mississippi : the name and the place; title: Two worlds collide : Spanish explorers and American indians; title: French colonies; title: The British period, 1763-1781; title: Spanish rule, 1781-1798; title: The territorial period, 1798-1817; title: The new state, 1817-1832; title: Antebellum politics; title: Antebellum life; title: Mounting sectional strife; title: Secession and Civil War; title: Reconstruction in Mississippi; title: Bourbons and populists; title: Into the twentieth century : economic and social trends; title: Progressive "rednecks"; title: A new era, the 1920s; title: The Depression years; title: A rich cultural heritage; title: The World War II era; title: The fifties; title: Religious life; title: The second Reconstruction; title: Times of transition; title: The social environment; title: Recent political trends; title: Tumultuous trends in education; title: Recent economic trends; title: Into the twenty-first century; title: Living in the twenty-first century; title: Appendix I: European rulers with relation to Mississippi during the colonial and territorial periods; title: Appendix II: Members of the U.S. Congress, 1817-1861; title: Appendix III: Mississippi symbols and facts; title: Appendix IV: Total population, 1800-2010; title: Appendix V: Racial population changes, 1800-2010.