Black Rice
Subtitle: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: March 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780674008342
Subjects: African history; Agriculture & related industries; American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: pre-Columbian period, BCE to c 1500; Black studies; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Africa; Latin America; North America; The Americas; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; General; Social Science / African-American Studies
First sentence: THE EMBARKATION of the Portuguese into the Atlantic in the fourteenth century led to social and ecological transformations that brought sub-Saharan Africa within the orbit of European navigation.