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Midwest maize : how corn shaped the U.S. heartland / Cynthia Clampitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clampitt, Cynthia.
- Series:
- Heartland foodways
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corn--Middle West.
- Corn.
- Corn--Middle West--History.
- History.
- Middle West.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- How corn shaped the U.S. heartland
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252038914
- 0252038916
- 9780252080579
- 0252080572
- 9780252096877
- 0252096878
- OCLC:
- 884665169
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