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INTRODUCTION (Adobe PDF)

UNIT I      A SENSE OF PLACE
Chapter 1 Mississippi's Natural Environment: Climate and Water Resources (Adobe PDF)
Chapter 2 Mississippi's Natural Environment: Landforms and Biota (Adobe PDF)

UNIT II     EARLY BEGINNINGS
Chapter 3 The Road to Statehood (Adobe PDF)
Chapter 4 Politics, Slavery, and Antebellum Society (Adobe PDF)

UNIT III    MISSISSIPPI IN TRANSITION
Chapter 5 Secession and Civil War (Adobe PDF)
Chapter 6 Reconstruction and Transition (Adobe PDF)
Chapter 7 The Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Adobe PDF)

UNIT IV   THE AMERICANIZATION OF MISSISSIPPI
Chapter 8 Mississippi Between the Wars (Adobe PDF)
Chapter 9 Mississippi in the Postwar Period (Adobe PDF)

UNIT V      CONTEMPORARY MISSISSIPPI: THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT OF PLACE
Chapter 10 Population and Urban Growth (Adobe PDF)
Chapter 11 Economic Activities and the Environment (Adobe PDF)

UNIT VI     MISSISSIPPI ARTS AND LETTERS
Chapter 12 Mississippi's Literary Heritage (Adobe PDF)
Chapter 13 Mississippi's Music, Crafts, and Visual Arts (Adobe PDF)

UNIT VII    CITIZENS AND GOVERNMENT
Chapter 14 Federal and State Government (Adobe PDF)
Chapter 15 Local Government (Adobe PDF)
Chapter 16 Citizenship (Adobe PDF)

APPENDICES (Adobe PDF)

ATLAS (Adobe PDF)

GLOSSARY (Adobe PDF)

INDEX (Adobe PDF)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (Adobe PDF)