Corn & Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global DominanceUniv of North Carolina Press, 2003 - 270 pages Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy. The book, first published in Mexico i |
Table des matières
American Plants World Treasures | 1 |
Botanical Economy of a Marvelous Plant | 12 |
A Bastards Tale | 28 |
Corn in China The Adventure Continues Half a World Away | 37 |
Corn and Slavery in Africa | 51 |
Corn and Colonialism | 66 |
Corn and Dependency in Independent Africa | 82 |
Corn in Europe An Elusive Trail | 97 |
The Curse of Corn in Europe | 132 |
Corn in the United States Blessing and Bane | 151 |
The Road to Food Power | 174 |
The Syndrome of Inequality The World Market | 197 |
Inventing the Future | 217 |
Brief Reflections on Utopia and the New Millennium | 232 |
| 243 | |
| 257 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Corn & Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance Arturo Warman Affichage d'extraits - 2003 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
acre African agricultural already American appeared areas associated average became capital century cereals changes China colonial common complex consumption continued corn corn cultivation corn's cotton countries crop cultivation culture demand dependence diets direct disease domestic economic effect entire especially Europe European expansion export factors farms fertilizers figures foodstuffs forces grain growing growth half hand harvest human implied important included increase industrial interests introduction Italy knowledge known labor land less limited living Mexico million tons native nature nearly never nineteenth century North origin peasants pellagra percent period plantations plants poor population possible practice Press probably production region relations remained result role rural scientific seed served slaves social soil South southern third tion trade traditional transformation twentieth century United University varieties wheat yields
Fréquemment cités
Page 243 - In Soviet and East European Agriculture edited by Jerzy F. Karcz, 104-28. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, 1967. Beaucourt, Chantal. "The Crop Policy of the Soviet Union: Present Characteristics and Future Perspectives.
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Corn & Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance Latin America in translation Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução |
| Auteur | Arturo Warman |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0807854379, 9780807854372 |
| Longueur | 270 pages |
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