
Connecting Continents
This volume draws together richly textured and deeply empirical accounts of rice and how its cultivation in the Carolina low country stitch together a globe that maps colonial economies, displacement, and the creative solutions of enslaved people conscripted to cultivate its grain.
If sugar fueled the economic hegemony of North Europe in the 18th and 19th century, rice fed it. Nowhere has this stor...
This volume draws together richly textured and deeply empirical accounts of rice and how its cultivation in the Carolina low country stitch together a globe that maps colonial economies, displacement, and the creative solutions of enslaved people conscripted to cultivate its grain.
If sugar fueled the economic hegemony of North Europe in the 18th and 19th century, rice fed it. Nowhere has this stor...