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Midwest maize : how corn shaped the U.S. heartland / Cynthia Clampitt.

Clampitt, Cynthia, (uuthor.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0252080572
  • ISBN: 0252038916
  • ISBN: 9780252080579
  • ISBN: 9780252038914
  • Physical Description: xxii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]â„—2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
From Oaxaca to the world, or how maize became corn -- Out of one, many: the unity and diversity of corn -- Birth of the Midwest and the corn belt -- Cities, transportation, and booming business -- Sow, hoe, harvest -- From field to table -- Hooves, feathers, and invisible corn -- Popcorn: America's snack -- Transformations -- Embracing change- and questioning change -- Celebrating corn -- Living with corn: early 1800s to early 1900s -- Living with corn: early 1900s to present -- Eating corn: recipes and histories -- Questions, issues, and hopes for the future.
Subject: Corn > Middle West.
Corn > Middle West > History.

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