TY - BOOK AU - Tuten,James H. TI - Lowcountry time and tide: the fall of the South Carolina rice kingdom SN - 9781611172164 AV - HD9066 .L693 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Columbia, S.C. PB - University of South Carolina Press KW - Rice trade KW - South Carolina KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Rice KW - Plantations KW - 20th century KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=509868&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -