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| 类型/形式: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| 附加的形体格式: | Print version: Warman, Arturo. Corn & capitalism. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003 (DLC) 2002010956 (OCoLC)50198528 |
| 材料类型: | 文献, 政府刊物, 州政府或者省政府刊物, 互联网资源 |
| 文件类型: | 互联网资源, 计算机文档 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Arturo Warman |
| ISBN: | 0807863254 9780807863251 |
| OCLC号码: | 53973191 |
| 描述: | 1 online resource (xiii, 270 p.) |
| 丛书名: | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. |
| 其他题名: | Historia de un bastardo Corn and capitalism |
| 责任: | Arturo Warman ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate. |
摘要:
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.
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