TY - GEN AU - McCann,James ED - American Council of Learned Societies. TI - Maize and grace: Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000 SN - 0674017188 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Corn KW - Africa KW - History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio8863474 ER -