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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, S.C. :
University of South Carolina Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 once-lucrative industry through the challenging postbellum years and into the hardscrabble twentieth century. --from publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-168) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611172164 1611172160 1283855348 9781283855341 |