Delta Sugar : Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape (Creating the North American Landscape)
Editorial Reviews Review
"Rehder's book is essential to understanding the historical geography of Louisiana and the development of plantation agriculture in the state and elsewhere in the South that created unique and influential places known throughout the world."--Lawrence E. Estaville, The Professional Geographer
"A useful starting point for historians who are interested in further research that extends our understanding of the rural South beyond the transformations of the mid-twentieth century, where most current studies end."--Greta de Jong, American Historical Review
"A well-researched, comprehensive, and very readable examination of this unique and disappearing environment."--Gabrielle M. Lanier, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
"Lost [from American agricultural history] is the story of how sugar production in Louisiana has been transformed in the last two hundred years. Delta Sugar fills that gap. John B. Rehder has written a valuable examination of the sugar industry, a layered history of the blossoming and maturation of sugar production along the Mississippi Delta."--Leo E. Landis, Technology and Culture Book Description
"A plantation is much like a person, exhibiting a personality through its sequence of ownership and landscape expression." -- from Delta Sugar
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. Along the way, he demonstrates exactly what makes a plantation a plantation, comparing it to other forms of agricultural production and examining the types of buildings and design that make up this erstwhile form. To know the land and its people, Rehder says, one must follow an evolutionary journey reflected by plantation architecture. This distinctive book combines analyses of landscape, economy, architecture, and agronomy, probing the long-term evolution of the sugarcane trade from Old World industry to French Caribbean legacy. The text is enhanced by production charts, parish and state geographic maps, and more than one hundred historic and contemporary illustrations.
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. Delta Sugar : Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape (Creating the North American Landscape)
Delta Sugar : Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape (Creating the North American Landscape),John B. Rehder,The Johns Hopkins University Press,0801861314,Architecture,History,History - General,History - General History,Human Geography,Industries - General,Louisiana,Louisiana - Local History,Plantation life,Plantations,Social aspects,Sugar growing,United States - State & Local - General,Architecture / Landscape
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