Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780195089134 |
ISBN 10 | 0195089138 |
Author | B Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor James C Cobb |
Language | English |
Book Description | "Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but in the Mississippi Delta," he said, "are antebellum conditions so nearly preserved." This crescent of bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mi |
About the Author | 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. Read more |
Publication Date | 1994-08-04 |
Number of Pages | 416 pages |
The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity