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Maize and grace [electronic resource] : Africa's encounter wit h a New World crop, 1500-2000 / James C. McCann.

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McCann, James, 1950-

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American Council of Learned Societies

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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.Description: xiii, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmSubject(s):

Corn -- Africa -- History

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Contents:

Africa and the world ecology of maize -- Naming the stranger: maize' s journey to Africa -- Maize's invention in West Africa -- Seeds of sub version in two peasant empires -- How Africa's maize turned white -- Af rican maize, American rust -- Breeding SR-52: the politics of science a nd race in Southern Africa -- Maize and malaria -- Maize as metonym in Africa's new millennium -- Appendix: Tables.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2008. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet.

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