Maize and grace Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000 /

McCann, James, 1950-

Maize and grace Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000 / [electronic resource] : James C. McCann. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005. - xiii, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) .

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.
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([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Corn--History.--Africa


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