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Author Tuten, James H.

Title Lowcountry time and tide : the fall of the South Carolina rice kingdom / James H. Tuten
Published Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-168) and index
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Subject 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
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Manners and customs
Plantations
Rice
Rice trade
Reis.
Reisanbau.
Handel.
SUBJECT South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Subject South Carolina
Carolina.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010005645
ISBN 9781611172164
1611172160
1283855348
9781283855341