University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Blake Edwards
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Blake Edwards (1922-2010) was a multitalented, versatile director constantly exploring who he was, not only in filmmaking but also in life. Often typecast as a comedy director, he also created westerns, thrillers, musicals, and heart-wrenching dramas. His strength as a filmmaker came from his ability...
Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux
Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Winner of the 2018 Chicago Folklore Prize
and
Winner of the 2018 Opie Prize
Jeanne Soileau, a teacher in New Orleans and south Louisiana for more than forty years, examines how children’s folklore, especially among African Americans, has changed. From the tumult of integration to the present,...
Cham
The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Cham, real name Count Amédée de Noé and a serious rival to Daumier, may have been the epitome of a célèbre inconnu, a famous unknown. He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of his huge oeuvre as a caricaturist.
This book concentrates on his mastery of the important newcomer...
German Boy
A Refugee's Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
What was the experience of war for a child in bombed and ravaged Germany? In this memoir the voice of innocence is heard. "This is great stuff," exclaims Stephen E. Ambrose. "I love this book." In this gripping account a boy and his mother are wrenched from their tranquil lives to forge a...
Hold On with a Bulldog Grip
A Short Study of Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
In this new short biography of Ulysses S. Grant, leading scholars provide an accessible introduction to Grant and his legacy. Grant led Federal forces to victory in the Civil War, was the first modern American president, and authored his memoirs, which would eventually become one of the greatest books...
The Port Royal Experiment
A Case Study in Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The Port Royal Experiment builds on classic scholarship to present not a historical narrative but a study of what is now called development and nation-building. The Port Royal Experiment was a joint governmental and private effort begun during the Civil War to transition former slaves to freedom and...
Russell Long
A Life in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Russell Long (1918-2003) occupies a unique niche in twentieth-century United States history. Born into Louisiana's most influential political family, and son of perhaps the most famous Louisianan of all time, Long extended the political power generated by other members of his family and attained heights...
Island at War
Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Despite Puerto Rico being the hub of the United States' naval response to the German blockade of the Caribbean, there is very little published scholarship on the island's heavy involvement in the global conflict of World War II. Recently, a new generation of scholars has been compiling interdisciplinary...
European Empires in the American South
Colonial and Environmental Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Contributions by Allison Margaret Bigelow, Denise I. Bossy, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Alexandre Dub", Kathleen DuVal, Jonathan Eacott, Travis Glasson, Christopher Morris, Robert Olwell, Joshua Piker, and Joseph P. Ward
European Empires in the American South examines the process of European...
In Defense of Freedom
Stories of Courage and Sacrifice of World War II Army Air Forces Flyers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The twenty-seven stories in this book serve as a graphic reminder of the selfless heroism of America's World War II Army Air Forces flyers and how necessary they were to achieve Allied victory. Wolfgang Samuel and the pilots he interviewed reveal the peril these men faced to achieve a daunting task,...
Toussaintâ??s Clause
The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790 to 1810,...
by Amanda Carson Banks
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1999
There was a time when birth was treated as a natural process rather than a medical condition. Before 1800, women gave birth seated in birth chairs or on stools and were helped along by midwives. Then societal changes in attitudes toward women and the practice of medicine made birthing a province of...
Between Generations
Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Between Generations is a multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a tradition of creative, collaborative partnerships between adults and children in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. The intergenerational...
Reading Like a Girl
Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative...