Book reviews of:
William F. Winter and the New Mississippi: A Biography. By Charles C. Bolton Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013. Pp. vii, 368. Illustrations, map, acknowledgements, notes, index. 35.00cloth.ISBN:9781617037870.BornofConviction:WhiteMethodistsandMississippi’sClosedSociety.ByJosephT.Reiff.(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,2016.Acknowledgements,illustrations,map,notes,index.Pp.xxi,384.35 Hardcover. ISBN: 9780190246815).
In Katrina’s Wake: The U.S. Coast Guard and the Gulf Coast Hurricanes of 2005. By Donald L. Canney. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. Foreword, notes, index. Pp. xv, 228. 27.50cloth.)Slavery,RaceandConquestintheTropic:Lincoln,DouglasandtheFutureofAmerica.ByRobertE.May.(NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2013.Acknowledgements,illustrations,maps,notes,index.Pp.xi,296.80 cloth, 26.99paper,22 e-book. ISBN: 9780521132527.)
Rivers of Sand: Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South. By Christopher D. Haveman. (Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, notes on terminology, index. Pp. ix, 414.
Trouble in Goshen: Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression. By Fred C. Smith (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. Acknowledgements, illustrations, map notes, index. Pp. xi, 214. 60.00cloth.ISBN:9781617039560.)BuildersofaNewSouth:Merchants,Capital,andtheRemakingofNatchez,1865−1914.ByAaronD.Anderson(Jackson:UniversityPressofMississippi,2013.Acknowledgments,illustrations,photographs,notes,graphics,index.Pp.279.40 cloth. ISBN: 978-1- 61703-667-5.)
Adventurism and Empire: The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana- Florida Borderlands 1762-1803. By David Narrett. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Acknowledgements, illustrations, notes, index. Pp. xi, 365. 45cloth,44.99 e-book. ISBN: 978-1-4696-1833-3.)
Empty Sleeves: Amputation in the Civil War South. By Brian Craig Miller. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. Illustrations, acknowledgments, appendix, notes, index. Pp. xvi, 257. 79.95cloth,29.95 paper. ISBN: 0820343327.)
Signposts: New Directions in Southern Legal History. By Sally E. Hadden and Patricia Hagler Minter, eds. (Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2013. Acknowledgements, illustrations, index. Pp. xi, 480. 69.95cloth,26.95 paper, 26.95ebook.ISBN:978−0−8203−4499−7.)TheColorofChrist:TheSonofGodandtheSagaofRaceinAmerica.ByEdwardJ.BlumandPaulHarvey.(ChapelHill:UniversityofNorthCarolinaPress,2012.Pp.325.32.50 Cloth. ISBN: 9780807835722.