{"product_id":"the-market-preparation-of-carolina-richard-dwight-porcher-9781611173512","title":"The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice: An Illustrated History of Innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book to illustrate and describe the implements and machines used to prepare Carolina rice for overseas markets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Dwight Porcher, Jr., eminent field biologist and lowcountry South Carolina native, has brought all of his skills as a botanist, historian, photographer, and conservationist to bear in a multidisciplinary study of the rice industry in South Carolina from its beginnings in the 1670s to its demise in the twentieth century. Using the tools of the geographer, civil engineer, draftsman and close readings of many primary and secondary sources on the history of rice culture in the colony and state, Porcher and coauthor William Robert Judd have amassed a great body of previously unknown information on rice history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetailed illustrations and descriptions of the implements and machines featuring technology used to prepare Carolina rice for overseas markets, \u003ci\u003eThe Market Preparation of Carolina Rice\u003c\/i\u003e includes 161 illustrations, most of them meticulously hand-drafted by Judd expressly for this edition. The book begins with the preindustrial implements and techniques used by African and African American slaves and workers in the late 1600s and early 1700s and concludes with the water- and steam-powered machines that drove rice threshing and milling until the end of the industry in 1911. In great detail the authors reveal the immense, continually evolving technological innovations of an agricultural industry that spanned the Industrial Revolution and much of the history of the colony and state. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this rich body of knowledge in hand, Porcher stands at odds with theories held by most historians of rice culture who generally assert that the plantation culture of rice was in unrecoverable decline as the South hastened to civil war. Porcher believes that decline was retarded by continuous technological innovation and increasing investment in land, labor, and mechanization as local planters sought to sustain profits in a globally expanding market. Porcher asserts that the post-Civil War loss of slave labor and destruction of infrastructure, a series of hurricanes, competition from rice grown in the American Southwest starting in 1880, and financial restraints that led to the cessation of rice culture in lowcountry South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. Impoverished and unable to adapt to new technologies and market demands, rice planters left the commercial rice enterprise to others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Dwight Porcher, William Robert Judd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1611173515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611173512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 7.10w x 1.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2015 pg. 1169","brand":"Richard Dwight Porcher","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44078505591039,"sku":"9781611173512","price":61.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cc904f51-b3f5-4cdc-8dbf-82f087e259c2.jpg?v=1685475904","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-market-preparation-of-carolina-richard-dwight-porcher-9781611173512","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}