Heitmann, John Alfred.

The modernization of the Louisiana sugar industry, 1830-1910 / John Alfred Heitmann. - Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, c1987. - xii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 273-289.

I. The French connection -- 2. Local institutions and the adoption of scientific and technical innovations, 1830 - 1861 -- 3. Post-civil war developments and the rise of the German beet industry -- 4. Planters in power : The Louisiana Sugars Planters' Association -- 5. Responding to competition -- 6. Planters and the United States Department of Agriculture : Compromise and Accommodation -- 7. The great experiment -- 8. Agricultral research

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Sugar trade--Technological innovations--History.--Louisiana

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