The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.
French on Shifting Ground
Cultural and Coastal Erosion in South Louisiana
An intensive study of the disappearance of land and language in Louisiana
Damaged
Musicality and Race in Early American Punk
The first book-length account of American punk as a musical style
Cold War II
Hollywood's Renewed Obsession with Russia
Essays that critique America’s superiority complex and movies and TV shows that reignite the Cold War
Alabama Quilts
Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950
The first book to examine the cultural and historical impact of Alabama’s quilting legacy
SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL!
Experiencing Friday the 13th
The first-ever book devoted to close analysis of the modern, multimillion-dollar cult classic franchise
Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest
A timely exploration of grassroots political protest in the age of Trump
No Future in This Country
The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
A critical study of the career of the nineteenth-century bishop
Harmony and Normalization
US-Cuban Musical Diplomacy
How policy can transform music and how musicians and performances create lasting bonds
Groove Theory
The Blues Foundation of Funk
The first in-depth intellectual history of funk music and its growth out of the blues tradition
Chaos and Compromise
The Evolution of the Mississippi Budgeting Process
A thorough assay of the painstaking process that delivers a state budget