TY - GEN AU - McCann, James, ED - American Council of Learned Societies. TI - Maize and grace: Africa's encounter wit h a New World crop, 1500-2000 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Corn KW - Africa KW - History 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 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; 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 UR - htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.05687 ER -