Lowcountry time and tide : the fall of the South Carolina rice kingdom

Lowcountry time and tide : the fall of the South Carolina rice kingdom /

In mapping the slow decline of the rice kingdom across the half-century following the Civil War, James H. Tuten offers a provocative new vision of the forces--agricultural, environmental, economic, cultural, and climatic--stacked against planters, laborers, and millers struggling to perpetuate their...

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Main Author: Tuten, James H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2010
Subjects:
Rice trade > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Rice > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Plantations > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Rice trade > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
Rice > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
Plantations > South Carolina > History > 20th century.
South Carolina > Social life and customs > 19th century.
South Carolina > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Chronological view of rice culture. A brief history of rice culture to the 1870s
  • The planter imperative, 1872-1893
  • The collapse of the rice culture, 1893-1929
  • Themes in postbellum rice culture. Changes in agricultural practice
  • Rice as symbol and foodway
  • Epilogue. The legacies of lowcountry rice culture.

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