Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs - Growing Up on a Mississippi Subsistence Farm

Informationen zum Autor Jimmye Hillman grew up in southern Mississippi! going on to receive his PhD from the University of California! Berkeley! and become an agricultural economist at the University of Arizona! where he spent thirty years doing groundbreaking work in agricultural trade policy. He is now Professor Emeritus and lives in Tucson. Klappentext 'It's in the nature of things that whole worlds disappear!' writes the poet Robert Hass in the foreword to Jimmye Hillman's insightful memoir. 'Their vanishings! more often than not! go unrecorded or pass into myth.' To ensure that the world of Jimmye Hillman's childhood in Greene County! Mississippi during the Great Depression doesn't slip away! he has gathered together accounts of his family and the other people of Old Washington village.

Product details

• Authors: Jimmye Hillman, Jimmye S. Hillman
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780816529919
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-2991-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies