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] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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