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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches                 Summary       More by this author     Tuten, James H.     Subjects     Rice trade -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.     Rice -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.     Plantations -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.     Electronic books.     Rice trade -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.     Rice -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.     Plantations -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.     South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.     South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tuten, James H.       by title:      Lowcountry time and ...         MARC Display

Lowcountry time and tide : the fall of the South Carolina rice kingdom [electronic resource] / James H. Tuten. by Tuten, James H. Subjects Rice trade -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.   Rice -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.   Plantations -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.   Electronic books.   Rice trade -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.   Rice -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.   Plantations -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century.   South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.   South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Publisher Info:  [United States] : University of South Carolina Press, 2012. Made available through hoopla Description:  1 online resource RDA Types:  text computer online resource Digital File Characteristics:  text file ISBN:  9781611172164 (electronic bk.) 1611172160 (electronic bk.) Format Book:  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. Concentrating his study on the vast rice plantations of the Heyward, Middleton, and Elliott families of South Carolina, Tuten narrates the ways in which rice producers-both the former grandees of the antebellum period and their newly freed slaves-sought to revive rice production. Both groups had much invested in the economic recovery of rice culture during Reconstruction and the beginning decades of the twentieth century. Despite all disadvantages, rice planting retained a perceived cultural mystique that led many to struggle with its farming long after the profits withered away. Planters tried a host of innovations, including labor contracts with former slaves, experiments in mechanization, consolidation of rice fields, and marketing cooperatives in their efforts to rekindle profits, but these attempts were thwarted by the insurmountable challenges of the postwar economy and a series of hurricanes that destroyed crops and the infrastructure necessary to sustain planting. Taken together, these obstacles ultimately sounded the death knell for the rice kingdom. The study opens with an overview of the history of rice culture in South Carolina through the Reconstruction era and then focuses on the industry's manifestations and decline from 1877 to 1930. Tuten offers a close study of changes in agricultural techniques and tools during the period and demonstrates how adaptive and progressive rice planters became despite their conservative reputations. He also explores the cultural history of rice both as a foodway and a symbol of wealth in the lowcountry, used on currency and bedposts. Tuten concludes with a thorough treatment of the lasting legacy of rice culture, especially in terms of the environment, the continuation of rice foodways and iconography, and the role of rice and rice plantations in the modern tourism industry. URL:  https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12069341 Instantly available on hoopla. Cover image https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/csp_9781611172164_180.jpeg No. of Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Status   Marion Public Library Hoopla Downloadable Digital Download Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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