Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 178 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781611172164
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1611172160
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1283855348
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9781283855341
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-168) and index
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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.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tuten, James H Lowcountry time and tide Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2010 ISBN 9781570039263
Sprache:
Englisch
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