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.
Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text.
([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Mode of access: Intranet.
0674017188 9780674017184
2004054325
Corn--History.--Africa
Electronic books.
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.
Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text.
([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Mode of access: Intranet.
0674017188 9780674017184
2004054325
Corn--History.--Africa
Electronic books.