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

Judith Ann Carney (Author)
"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
eBook, English, 2001
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001
History
1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780674029217, 9780674262539, 0674029216, 0674262530
657619002
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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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