Carolina's Golden Fields

Carolina's Golden Fields

Inland Rice Cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1860

Smith, Hayden R.

Cambridge University Press

10/2019

258

Dura

Inglês

9781108423403

15 a 20 dias

500

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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.
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South Carolina; colonial period; antebellum period; rice cultivation; agriculture; slavery; landscape; environment; technology and culture