Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland

by Cynthia Clampitt

Book Overview

Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252080572
• ISBN13: 9780252080579
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 9.1"