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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.