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Maize and Grace : Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000.
Title:
Maize and Grace : Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000.
Author:
McCann, James C.
ISBN:
9780674040748
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- 1. Africa and the World Ecology of Maize -- 2. Naming the Stranger: Maize's Journey to Africa -- 3. Maize's Invention in West Africa -- 4. Seeds of Subversion in Two Peasant Empires -- 5. How Africa's Maize Turned White -- 6. African Maize, American Rust -- 7. Breeding SR-52: The Politics of Science and Race in Southern Africa -- 8. Maize and Malaria -- 9. Maize as Metonym in Africa's New Millennium -- Appendix: Tables -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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