| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Delta Sugar: Louisiana's Vanishing Plantation Landscape. By John B. Rehder. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 355 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-6131-4.)

If Louisiana's historic built environment is notcompletely bulldozed by real estate developers, chemical manufacturers, and negligent politicians, it will be owing to the vigilance of the cultural geographer and historian John B. Rehder. He painstakingly counted and documented the state's sugar plantations in 1969 by driving the entire sugar region and finding 202 of them. He traveled the same roads again in 1993 and found that 120 plantations were gone, including some of his case studies. Of 44 sugar factories in 1969, 25 were gone in 1993. Of 1,687 farms, only 690 remained. Most had been razed, lost to the new industry on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, "cancer alley," comprising 138 chemical plants established since the 1960s. Rehder does a fine job of explaining this rapid and devastating change. . . .

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