Tuten, James H. <br/><br/>
Lowcountry time and tide :  the fall of the South Carolina rice kingdom / 
James H. Tuten. 
 - Columbia, S.C. :  University of South Carolina Press,  (c)2010. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) :  illustrations, maps 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><br/>Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781611172164 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rice trade--History--South Carolina--19th century.<br/>Rice--History--South Carolina--19th century.<br/>Plantations--History--South Carolina--19th century.<br/>Rice trade--History--South Carolina--20th century.<br/>Rice--History--South Carolina--20th century.<br/>Plantations--History--South Carolina--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD9066  / .L693 2010