The Story of Corn - Brossura

Fussell, Betty

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0826335926 ISBN 13: 9780826335920

Casa editrice: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2004

Riassunto

An illustrated, social history of corn discusses the people who, for seven centuries, have planted, eaten, worshipped, processed, and profited from corn, also describing its reaches into commerce, religion, poetry, and alcohol. Reprint.

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Product Description:

A unique compendium, drawing upon history and mythology, science and art, anecdote and image, personal narrative and epic to tell the extraordinary story of the grain that built the New World. Corn transformed the way the entire world eats, providing a hardy, inexpensive alternative to rice or wheat and cheap fodder for livestock and finding its way into everything from explosives to embalming fluid. Betty Fussell has given us a true American saga, interweaving the histories of the indigenous peoples who first cultivated the grain and the European conquerors who appropriated and propagated it around the globe. She explores corn's roles as food, fetish, crop, and commodity to those who have planted, consumed, worshiped, processed, and profited from it for seven centuries.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

This interweaving of folklore, history, and science tells the seven-century story of the importance of corn in the Americas.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0826335926
• ISBN 13: 9780826335920
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 356