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. .
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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.