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Maize and Grace: Africa´s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
James C. McCann
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Description for Maize and Grace: Africa´s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
Paperback. 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. This work deals with this subject. Num Pages: 304 pages, 31 halftones, 2 charts, 6 maps, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; RG; TVKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
Sometime around 1500 A.D., 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 ... Read more
Sometime around 1500 A.D., 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
320g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674025578
SKU
V9780674025578
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About James C. McCann
James C. McCann is Professor of History and Associate Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University.
Reviews for Maize and Grace: Africa´s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
Maize and Grace shows how a New World crop contributed to the emergence of modern-day Africa. Some parts of Africa now have higher maize consumption per capita than Mexico and Guatemala, where the crop originated...Rather than describing sweeping historical currents, the book offers the reader a series of vignettes that provide opportunities to appreciate the paradoxes of maize development policy ... Read more