Maize for the Gods
Michael Blake
University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
food crops, maize production, cash crop, history of agriculture, growing corn, history of corn, corn production, global agriculture, archeobotany, agriculture in the americas, crop science, eat corn, food and agriculture, food production, global economies, worldwide food production, history of maize, mexican agriculture, food science, history of food, global food source, social science, industrial agriculture, corn, growing food, international reliance on corn