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100	1		_aWarman, Arturo, _eauthor. _9262985
240	1	0	_aHistoria de un bastardo
245	1	0	_aCorn & capitalism : _bhow a botanical bastard grew to global dominance / _cArturo Warman ; translated by Nancy L. Westrate.
246	3		_aCorn and capitalism
264		1	_aChapel Hill : _bUniversity of North Carolina Press, _c[2003]
264		4	_c©2003
300			_axiii, 270 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aLatin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-256) and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tAmerican Plants, World Treasures -- _g2. _tBotanical Economy of a Marvelous Plant -- _g3. _tA Bastard's Tale -- _g4. _tCorn in China: The Adventure Continues Half a World Away -- _g5. _tCorn and Slavery in Africa -- _g6. _tCorn and Colonialism -- _g7. _tCorn and Dependency in Independent Africa -- _g8. _tCorn in Europe: An Elusive Trail -- _g9. _tCorn and Society before the Era of Bourgeois Revolution -- _g10. _tThe Curse of Corn in Europe -- _g11. _tCorn in the United States: Blessing and Bane -- _g12. _tThe Road to Food Power -- _g13. _tThe Syndrome of Inequality: The World Market -- _g14. _tInventing the Future -- _g15. _tBrief Reflections on Utopia and the New Millennium.
520			_a"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 dependent on agriculture for propagation. Beginning in the Americas, Warman depicts corn as colonizer. Disparaged by the conquistadors, this Native American staple was embraced by the destitute of the Old World. In time, corn spread across the globe as a prodigious food source for both humans and livestock. Warman also reveals corn's role in nourishing the African slave trade. Through the history of one plant with enormous economic importance, Warman investigates large-scale social and economic processes, looking at the role of foodstuffs in the competition between nations and the perpetuation of inequalities between rich and poor states in the world market. Praising corn's almost unlimited potential for future use as an intensified source of starch, sugar, and alcohol, Warman also comments on some of the problems he foresees for large-scale, technology-dependent monocrop agriculture."--Publisher description.
588			_aMachine converted from AACR2 source record.
650		0	_aCorn _xHistory _9657179
830		0	_aLatin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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