{"product_id":"maize-for-the-gods-michael-blake-9780520276871","title":"Maize for the Gods: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn","description":"Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How did we come to be so dependent on this one plant? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaize for the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists to explore the complex ways that this single plant and the peoples who domesticated it came to be inextricably entangled with one another over the past nine millennia. Tracing maize from its first appearance and domestication in ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its intercontinental journey through most of North and South America, this history also tells the story of the artistic creativity, technological prowess, and social, political, and economic resilience of America's first peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Blake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520276876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520276871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Michael Blake","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44598232678655,"sku":"9780520276871","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ae1c2c3b-f8a8-4171-8f6b-60f243605dd2.jpg?v=1702381343","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maize-for-the-gods-michael-blake-9780520276871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}