Corn & Capitalism: How A Botanical Bastard Grew To Global Dominance

by Arturo Warman

Book Overview

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, first published in Mexico in 1988, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807854379
• ISBN13: 9780807854372
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"