Maize and Grace

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

James C. McCann

  • 2006 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
  • Honorable Mention 2006 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association

Preface

1. Africa and the World Ecology of Maize

2. Naming the Stranger: Maize's Journey to Africa

3. Maize's Invention in West Africa

4. Seeds of Subversion in Two Peasant Empires

5. How Africa's Maize Turned White

6. African Maize, American Rust

7. Breeding SR-52: The Politics of Science and Race in Southern Africa

8. Maize and Malaria

9. Maize as Metonym in Africa's New Millennium

Appendix: Tables

Notes

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

Index

  • Cover: Maize and Grace

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