The market preparation of Carolina rice
Subtitle: an illustrated history of innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom
By: Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr., and William Robert Judd
Contributors: Judd, William Robert
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Columbia, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9781611173512
Subjects: Rice trade; History; Rice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-361) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Foreword / David S. Shields; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: A brief history of rice; title: The origins and introductions of rice seeds; title: The culture of Carolina rice; title: Harvesting; title: Threshing; title: Milling; title: City mills and large plantation toll mills; title: The golden age of rice, 1800-1860; title: The last days of rice planting; title: Epilogue / Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr.; title: Appendix 1: Original field research plantations and sites; title: Appendix 2: Museums with originally manufactured products and/or machinery; title: Appendix 3: United States patents for rice-processing machinery, 1829-1887; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.