Abstract
Book reviews of:
Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege. By Michael B. Ballard. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Pp. xiii, 232. $32.95 cloth, $32.95 e-book. ISBN: 9780809332403.
A Voice That Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement. By Maegan Parker Brooks (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. Index, bibliography. Pp. 314. $60 cloth, $60 e-book. ISBN 978- 1-628646-004-9.)
A New Southern Woman: T he Correspondence of Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson, 1871-1883. Edited by Giselle Roberts. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013. Acknowledgements, illustrations, notes, index. Pp. viii, 306. $49.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781611171037.)
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South. By Blain Roberts. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014). Acknowledgments, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Pp. ix, 363. $39.95 hardcover, $29.99 e-book. ISBN: 978-1-4696-1420-5.)
Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South. By Yasuhiro Katagiri. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. Acknowledgements, illustrations, notes, index. Pp.xi, 392. $47.50 hardcover. ISBN 9780807153130.)
Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana. By George Edward Milne. (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2015. List of figures, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Pp. xi, 293. $84.95 cloth, $26.95 paper. ISBN: 9780820347509.)
In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle. By Darryl Mace. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. Preface, introduction, illustrations, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index. Pp. xi, 212. $40 cloth. ISBN: 978- 0-8131-4536-5.)
The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region. By Marcie Cohen Ferris. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 496 pp., 7x10, 50 halftones, notes, bibl., index. $35 cloth, $34.99 e-book. ISBN: 978- 1-4696-1768-8.)
Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear. By Aram Goudsouzian. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. Map, notes, acknowledgements, index. Pp. ix, 351. $30 cloth, $18 paper. ISBN: 0374192200.)
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South. Edited by Bruce Baker and Brian Kelly. Afterword by Eric Foner. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Acknowledgments, images, maps, notes, bibliography, index. Pp. vii, 279. $74.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. ISBN 978- 0-8130-4477-4.)
George Ohr: Sophisticate and Rube. By Ellen J. Lippert. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013. Acknowledgements, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, Pp. x, 163. $40 cloth. ISBN: 9781617039010.)
Recommended Citation
Brown, Tommy C.; Dixon, David; Kempker, Erin; Williams, Keira V.; Johnson, Kevin Boland; Adams, Mikaëla M.; Whitfield, Stephen J.; Puckett, Susan; Morris, Tiyi M.; Rizzi, Christine; and Park Huntington, Yumi
(2014)
"Book Reviews,"
Journal of Mississippi History: Vol. 76:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://aquila.usm.edu/jmh/vol76/iss1/6