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.
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
A comprehensive exploration of the fascinating ecology and history of one of the South’s most complex and thriving estuaries
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
A history of overreaching, gridlock, intrigue, and the final catastrophic results along America’s most vulnerable coastline
Japanese Animation
East Asian Perspectives
Never before available in English, East Asian critiques and discussion of a powerful Japanese export and popular art form
Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead
The Hanging of Albert Edwin Batson
How the tangles of nineteenth-century justice ensnared an itinerant worker in Louisiana
Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities
How the image of the militant guerilla helped and hindered aims of African American and Asian American power movements
The Search for Good Wine
From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table
One hundred amusing, practical essays on how to enjoy and afford good wines by the author of Thomas Jefferson on Wine
David Fincher
Interviews
Interviews with the director of Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and The Social Network
Ed King's Mississippi
Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer
An extraordinary photographic documentary from behind the scenes during the struggle for civil rights
Walt before Mickey
Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928
The untold story of ten critical, formative years in the great producer’s life
Conversations with Jerome Charyn
Interviews with the author of The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, Once Upon a Droshky, and The Man Who Grew Younger
A Mickey Mouse Reader
The first anthology to chart the Disney character’s ascent to the rank of global icon
The Civil War in Mississippi
Major Campaigns and Battles
The only volume dedicated entirely to the military history of an embattled Deep South state
Mississippi in the Civil War
The Home Front
A full examination of a population's passion and defeat
Conversations with Steve Martin
Collected interviews that provide insight into Martin’s numerous accomplishments as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the last forty years
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a country music masterpiece