A comprehensive history of the deep South - the bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers - from the first white settlement in the 1820s to the present. A portrait of the development and survival of a society and economy often seen as the most extreme in the South - an area where, despite the large black majority, whites have kept their grip on power throughout every era.
Readership: Those interested in the American South, Civil War and reconstruction, race relations, the Mississippi delta.
James C. Cobb, Bernadotte Schmitt Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
