Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1 Africa and the World Ecology of Maize 1
5. 2 Naming the Stranger: Maize’s Journey to Africa 23
6. 3 Maize’s Invention in West Africa 39
7. 4 Seeds of Subversion in Two Peasant Empires 59
8. 5 How Africa’s Maize Turned White 94
9. 6 African Maize, American Rust 120
10. 7 Breeding SR-52: The Politics of Science and Race in Southern Africa 140
11. 8 Maize and Malaria 174
12. 9 Maize as Metonym in Africa’s New Millennium 197
13. Appendix: Tables 219
14. Notes 231
15. Select Bibliography 261
16. Acknowledgments 275
17. Illustration Credits 279
18. Index 283