Giesen presented award
by MBJ Staff Published: July 16,2012
Tags: Boll Weevil Blues, James Giesen, Mississippi State University, University of Georgia
James C. Giesen, a Mississippi State University historian who also directs a university-based regional center, is being honored for his book on agriculture in the modern American South. He is receiving the first Deep South Book Prize for “Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth and Power in the American South” (University of Chicago Press, 2011). Giesen, [...] [...]
