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Maize and grace: Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000
Maize and grace: Africa's encounter with a New World crop, 1500-2000
Author
McCann, James
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
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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.
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Subjects
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Africa
Afrika
Agriculture
Agronomy
Corn
Corn -- Africa -- History
Crop Science
Electronic books
Grain
Grain -- Africa -- History
History
HISTORY / Africa / General
Mais
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science
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ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN
9780674025578
9780674017184
9780674040748
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