Carolina's Golden Fields: Inland Rice Cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1860

ISBN-13: 9781108423403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 258 str.

Hayden R. Smith

Opis

This book examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from their inception at the turn of the seventeenth century to the brink of their institutional collapse at the eve of the Civil War.

Recenzje

'Smith's work deserves to be read by specialists in environmental history and South Carolina rice cultivation and will also bring value to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and museum professionals, public historians, and preservationists with historic landscapes in their care. By joining the frameworks and methodologies of environmental history, archaeology, histories of slavery, technology, and agriculture, and material culture studies, Smith tells a rich story about land, labor, and change over time in the South Carolina Lowcountry.' Bethany J. McGlyn, H-Environment

Spis treści

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.