Maize and Grace : : Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 / / James C. McCann.

Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential crops--one that would transform the future of Africa and of the Atlantic world. The recent spread of maize has been al...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t 1 Africa and the World Ecology of Maize --   |t 2 Naming the Stranger: Maize’s Journey to Africa --   |t 3 Maize’s Invention in West Africa --   |t 4 Seeds of Subversion in Two Peasant Empires --   |t 5 How Africa’s Maize Turned White --   |t 6 African Maize, American Rust --   |t 7 Breeding SR-52: The Politics of Science and Race in Southern Africa --   |t 8 Maize and Malaria --   |t 9 Maize as Metonym in Africa’s New Millennium --   |t Appendix: Tables --   |t Notes --   |t Select Bibliography --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Illustration Credits --   |t Index 
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