Dr. James C Giesen is an Associate Professor at Mississippi State University in the division of agricultural, rural, and environmental history. Giesen also serves as the executive secretary of the Agricultural History Society and editor of the University of Georgia Press series Environmental History and the American South. Giesen’s book titled, “Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South” published in 2011, was the winner of both the 2012 Deep South Book Prize as well as the 2013 Francis Butler Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association for the best first book on Southern History.
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