Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom

A thorough account of rice culture's final decades and of its modern legacy.

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.

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