Black Rice The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas

Name: Black Rice The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
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ISBN: 9780674008342

ISBN-10: 0674008340

ISBN-13: 9780674008342

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Judith A. Carney, Judith A. Carney

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This text tells the story of the true provenance of rice in the Americas. It establishes, through agricultural and historical evidence, the vital significance of rice in West African society before the Europeans arrived and the slave trade began.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Judith A. Carneyis Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the award-winning bookBlack Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas.Richard Nicholas Rosomoffis an independent writer.



Preface


Introduction



Encounters



Rice Origins and Indigenous Knowledge



Out of Africa: Rice Culture and African Continuities



This Was ""Woman's Wuck""



African Rice and the Atlantic World



Legacies


Notes


References


Index