Author: Heitman, John Alfred
Title: The Modernization of the Louisiana Sugar Industry 1830-1910
Description: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ. Press, (1987). orig.cloth.. 23x15cm, xiv,298 pp. 8pp photo illustrations.. Slight top page-edge spotting. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The French Connection; Local Institutions and the Adoption of Scientific and Technical Innovations 1830-1861; Post-Civil War Developments and the Rise of the German Beet-Sugar Industry; Planters in Power: The Louisiana Sugar Planters' Association; Responding to the Competition; Planters and the United States Department of Agriculture: Compromise and Accomodation; The Great Experiment; Agricultural Research; Carbohydrate Chemistry at Audubon Park; Professionalization and Engineering Education; The Period of Decline; The Anatomy of an Industry in Transition.

Keywords: History of Agriculture, Sugar Industry, Louisiana, Innovation, United States, Agricultural, Industrial, Technological, Technology