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Corn & capitalism = how a botanical bastard grew to global dominance /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Corn & capitalism/ Arturo Warman ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate.
Reminder of title:	how a botanical bastard grew to global dominance /
remainder title:	Corn and capitalism
Author:	Warman, Arturo.
Published:	Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press, : c2003.,
Description:	xiii, 270 p. ;24 cm.
Series:	Latin America in translation/en traducci漃n/em tradu簙跾o
Subject:	Corn - History. -
Online resource:	https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=102045An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	0807863254 (electronic bk.)

Corn & capitalism = how a botanical bastard grew to global dominance /
Warman, Arturo.

Corn & capitalismhow a botanical bastard grew to global dominance /[electronic resource] :Corn and capitalismArturo Warman ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate. - Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,c2003. - xiii, 270 p. ;24 cm. - Latin America in translation/en traducci漃n/em tradu簙跾o.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256).

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 combines approaches from anthropology, social history, and political economy to tell the story of corn, a "botanical bastard" of unclear origins that cannot reseed itself and is instead dependent on agriculture for propagation. Beginning in the Americas, Warman depicts corn as colonizer. Disparaged by the conquistadors, this Native American staple was embraced by the destitute of the Old World. In time, corn spread across the globe as a prodigious food source for both humans and livestock. Warman also reveals corn's role in nourishing the African slave trade. Through the history of one plant with enormous economic importance, Warman investigates large-scale social and economic processes, looking at the role of foodstuffs in the competition between nations and the perpetuation of inequalities between rich and poor states in the world market. Praising corn's almost unlimited potential for future use as an intensified source of starch, sugar, and alcohol, Warman also comments on some of the problems he foresees for large-scale, technology-dependent monocrop agriculture.

Electronic reproduction.
Boulder, Colo. :
NetLibrary,
2004.

Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN: 0807863254 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

776220
Corn
--History.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: SB191.M2 / W34 2003eb

Dewey Class. No.: 633.1/5/09

National Agricultural Library Call No.: SB191.M2 / W34 2003

Corn & capitalism = how a botanical bastard grew to global dominance /
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