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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Judith A. CarneyPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9780674008342ISBN 10: 0674008340 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 March 2002 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface 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 Notes References IndexReviewsThis detailed study of historical botany, technological adaptation and agricultural diffusion adds depth to our understanding of slavery and makes a compelling case for 'the agency of slaves' in the creation of the South's economy and culture. - Drew Gilpin Faust, New York Times Book Review; Black Rice sets out to discredit for good an old Southern recipe for history that depicts slaves as mere laborers who dumbly performed work their masters conceived. Carney tells it the other way around. After years visiting West African rice fields, then digging in archives on both sides of the Atlantic, she has emerged with evidence that early slave traders sought and seized Africans who had the abilities to grow a specific African rice...Black Rice might be called an agricultural detective story. - Allan M. Jalon, Los Angeles Times Author InformationJudith A. Carney is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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