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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.Description: xiii, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0674017188
  • 9780674017184
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources:
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.
In: ACLS Humanities E-BookURL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Kwara State University Library SB191 .M33 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00269-01

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

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.

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

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.