McCann, James,  1950- <br/><br/>
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) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic text and image data. <br/>Ann Arbor, Mich. : <br/>University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office, <br/>2008. <br/>Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. <br/>([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) <br/>Mode of access: Intranet. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0674017188 9780674017184 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004054325 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Corn--History.--Africa
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.