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.
Mississippi
The Long, Hot Summer
The original sociological encounter with the riven demographics of the closed society
Yodeling and Meaning in American Music
The first musicological and ideological examination of the rich yodeling tradition
Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma
Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement
How white resistance operated and adapted to the sweeping forces of racial change
Clockwork Rhetoric
The Language and Style of Steampunk
How the language of the imaginatively styled movement attracts followers to steampunk aesthetic
The Comic Book Film Adaptation
Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre
The first study of how the comic book moved to the center of Hollywood film production in the twenty-first century
Trouble in Goshen
Plain Folk, Roosevelt, Jesus, and Marx in the Great Depression South
The untold story of three New Deal cooperative farms in the most economically challenged places in the South
The Port Royal Experiment
A Case Study in Development
An examination of the emancipated islands of the Carolina coast and how their history sheds light on the difficulties of nation building
Parchman
Powerful first-hand witness to the prison experience in Mississippi’s sprawling penitentiary farm
Dan Duryea
Heel with a Heart
The biography of a devoted family man best known for his roles as abusive villains
Conversations with Michael Chabon
Interviews with the renowned author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Conversations with William Gibson
Interviews with the author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History
Expressions of Place
The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape
Contemporary artists revealing the state’s urban landscapes, southwestern swamps, central prairies, verdant forests, and northern fields
Madeline Kahn
Being the Music, A Life
The first biography of the great comedic actress and star of stage and screen
Bertrand Tavernier
Interviews
Collected interviews with the director who is widely considered to be the leading light in a generation of French filmmakers who launched their careers in the 1970s, in the wake of the New Wave
Lucky Dogs
From Bourbon Street to Beijing and Beyond
An insider's account of the iconic hotdog cart business and its role in the French Quarter and the world