Maize and Grace Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000

Name: Maize and Grace Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
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ISBN: 9780674025578

ISBN-10: 0674025571

ISBN-13: 9780674025578

Edition: 2005

Authors: James C. McCann

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Sometime around 1500 AD , an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential crops--one that would transform the future of Africa and of the Atlantic world. Africa's experience with maize is distinctive but also instructive from a global perspective: experts predict that by 2020 maize will become the world's most cultivated crop. James McCann moves easily from the village level to the continental scale, from the medieval to the modern, as he explains the science of maize production and explores how the crop has imprinted itself on Africa's agrarian and urban landscapes. Today, maize…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.13" wide x 7.94" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

James C. McCann is Professor of History and Associate Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University.



Preface



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


Notes


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits


Index