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Human impacts and emerging mega-trends such as climate change and energy scarcity will impact natural resource management in this century. This is especially tr
The Mississippi Delta and the World
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Authors: James C. Cobb
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No one knew the Mississippi Delta more intimately or told its story more eloquently than did David L. Cohn (1894-1960). Between 1935 and 1960 he produced ten bo
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"Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but in the Mississippi Delta," he said, "are antebellum conditions so nearly preserv
Crossroads at Clarksdale
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Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black free
The Place with No Edge
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