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Corn & capitalism : how a botanical bastard grew to global dominance
- Title
- Corn & capitalism : how a botanical bastard grew to global dominance / Arturo Warman ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate.
- Author
- Warman, Arturo.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003], ©2003.
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- Description
- xiii, 270 pages; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
- Uniform Title
- Historia de un bastardo
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
- Alternative Title
- Historia de un bastardo
- Corn and capitalism
- Subject
- Corn > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.
- Contents
- 1. American Plants, World Treasures -- 2. Botanical Economy of a Marvelous Plant -- 3. A Bastard's Tale -- 4. Corn in China: The Adventure Continues Half a World Away -- 5. Corn and Slavery in Africa -- 6. Corn and Colonialism -- 7. Corn and Dependency in Independent Africa -- 8. Corn in Europe: An Elusive Trail -- 9. Corn and Society before the Era of Bourgeois Revolution -- 10. The Curse of Corn in Europe -- 11. Corn in the United States: Blessing and Bane -- 12. The Road to Food Power -- 13. The Syndrome of Inequality: The World Market -- 14. Inventing the Future -- 15. Brief Reflections on Utopia and the New Millennium.
- ISBN
- 0807827665 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807854379 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002010956
- OCLC
- ocm50198528
- SCSB-4347438
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries