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Maize and grace : Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000 /
"The recent spread of maize has been alarmingly rapid, its implications largely overlooked by the media and policy makers. McCann's compelling history offers insight into the profound influence of a single crop on African culture, health, and technological innovation - and the future of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Africa and the world ecology of maize
- Naming the stranger: maize's journey to Africa
- Maize's invention in West Africa
- Seeds of subversion in two peasant empires
- How Africa's maize turned white
- African maize, American rust
- Breeding SR-52: the politics of science and race in Southern Africa
- Maize and malaria
- Maize as metonym in Africa's new millennium
- Appendix: Tables.