Maize and grace [electronic resource] : Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000 / James C. McCann.
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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.Description: xiii, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN: - 0674017188
- 9780674017184
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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.
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