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"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…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1999Johns Hopkins University Press · 355 pages · 9780801861314
HistoryHuman geographyLandscape changesLandscape designMaterial culturePlantation lifePlantationsSocial aspects