Description: Examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from 1670 to 1860.
Brief description: Hayden R. Smith is Adjunct Professor of History at the College of Charleston, South Carolina.
Review Quotes: 'Smith's work deserves to be read by specialists in environmental history and South Carolina rice cultivation and will also bring value to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and museum professionals, public historians, and preservationists with historic landscapes in their care. By joining the frameworks and methodologies of environmental history, archaeology, histories of slavery, technology, and agriculture, and material culture studies, Smith tells a rich story about land, labor, and change over time in the South Carolina Lowcountry.' Bethany J. McGlyn, H-Environment