Delta sugar
Subtitle: Louisiana's vanishing plantation landscape
By: John B. Rehder.
Series: Creating the North American landscape
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Plantations -- Louisiana -- History.; Plantation life -- Louisiana -- History.; Sugar growing -- Social aspects -- Louisiana -- History.; Landscape changes -- Louisiana -- History.; Human geography -- Louisiana.; Material culture -- Louisiana.; Landscape design -- Louisiana.
Description: "In Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape, John B. Rehder offers a sweeping historical treatment of Louisiana's longstanding sugar industry. Tracing the industry's transplantation from its sources in the Caribbean, Rehder includes many aspects of material culture that have been changed over time by technology, culture, and marketplace."--BOOK JACKET.

"Combining material history and cultural geography, Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape offers a comprehensive and vivid portrait of the rise and fall of a unique agricultural industry and its distinctive arrangements for production."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-344) and index.