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Lowcountry time and tide : the fall of the South Carolina rice kingdom / James H. Tuten.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611172164
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD9066 .L693 2010
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Contents:
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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Subject: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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