Midwest Maize : How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland /
A vital crop's impact on human history, industry, and eating.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2015.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- From Oaxaca to the world, or how maize became corn
- Out of one, many: the unity and diversity of corn
- Birth of the Midwest and the corn belt
- Cities, transportation, and booming business
- Sow, hoe, harvest
- From field to table
- Hooves, feathers, and invisible corn
- Popcorn: America's snack
- Transformations
- Embracing change
- and questioning change
- Celebrating corn
- Living with corn: early 1800s to early 1900s
- Living with corn: early 1900s to present
- Eating corn: recipes and histories
- Questions, issues, and hopes for the future.