Hayden R. Smith

Carolina's Golden Fields

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from 1670 to 1860.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781108423403
• ISBN-10: 110842340X
• Artikelnr.: 56011276

Autorenporträt

Hayden R. Smith is Adjunct Professor of History at the College of Charleston, South Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: in land of cypress and pine
2. Simple reserves: early development of inland rice, 1670-1729
3. The 'golden mines of Carolina': expansion of the inland complex, 1730-1783
4. 'To depend altogether on reservoirs': upper Wando River rice cultivation, 1783-1860
5. 'The rice fields which are sown have been partially flowed': water and labor management during the antebellum period
6. Inland rice cultivation and the promise of agricultural reform
7. Epilogue: forgotten fields.