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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCann, James C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Corn > Africa > History.
Grain > Africa > History.
Maïs > Afrique > Histoire.
Corn
Grain
Africa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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

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