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Black rice : the African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas

Author: Judith Ann Carney
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2001]
Series: ACLS Fellows' publications.; ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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"Through agricultural and historical evidence, [the author establishes] the independent domestication of rice in West Africa and its vital significance there for a millennium before Europeans arrived and the slave trade began."--Jacket.
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Carney, Judith Ann.
Black rice.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001
(DLC) 00053941
(OCoLC)45270253
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Judith Ann Carney
ISBN: 9780674029217 0674029216
OCLC Number: 657619002
Language Note: English.
Reproduction Notes: Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps
Details: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Contents: Preface Introduction 1. Encounters 2. Rice Origins and Indigenous Knowledge 3. Out of Africa: Rice Culture and African Continuities 4. This Was "Woman's Wuck" 5. African Rice and the Atlantic World 6. Legacies Notes References Index
Series Title: ACLS Fellows' publications.; ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Responsibility: Judith A. Carney.

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