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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McCann, James C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Maize and Grace : Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000 / James C. McCann. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009] ©2007 1 online resource (304 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Africa and the World Ecology of Maize -- 2 Naming the Stranger: Maize’s Journey to Africa -- 3 Maize’s Invention in West Africa -- 4 Seeds of Subversion in Two Peasant Empires -- 5 How Africa’s Maize Turned White -- 6 African Maize, American Rust -- 7 Breeding SR-52: The Politics of Science and Race in Southern Africa -- 8 Maize and Malaria -- 9 Maize as Metonym in Africa’s New Millennium -- Appendix: Tables -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 alarmingly fast, with implications largely overlooked by the media and policymakers. McCann's compelling history offers insight into the profound influence of a single crop on African culture, health, technological innovation, and the future of the world's food supply. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) HISTORY / Africa / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040748 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674040748 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674040748/original |
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