Michael Blake Maize for the Gods (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Maize for the GodsCondition: NewEAN: 9780520286962ISBN: 9780520286962Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/28/2015Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 363gAuthor: Michael BlakeLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of CornISBN-10: 0520286960Description: Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How did we come to be so dependent on this one plant? Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists to explore the complex ways that this single plant and the peoples who domesticated it came to be inextricably entangled with one another over the past nine millennia. Tracing maize from its first appearance and domestication in ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its intercontinental journey through most of North and South America, this history also tells the story of the artistic creativity, technological prowess, and social, political, and economic resilience of America's first peoples.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Science Nature & Math, Technology & Engineering, HistoryRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Publication Name: Maize for the Gods

Title: Maize for the Gods

EAN: 9780520286962

ISBN: 9780520286962

Release Date: 08/28/2015

Release Year: 2015

Subtitle: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn

ISBN-10: 0520286960

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Book Title: Maize for the Gods : Unearthing the 9000-Year History of Corn

Number of Pages: 280 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: University of California Press

Publication Year: 2015

Topic: Latin America / Mexico, Archaeology, Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)

Item Height: 0.7 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History

Item Weight: 12.8 Oz

Author: Michael Blake

Item Length: 9 in

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback