Maize and grace : Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000 / James C. McCann.

  • McCann, James, 1950-
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2005
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

Physical description

xiii, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2008. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.

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