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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?Maize for the Gods 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.

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"A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West"--

Economic development. --- Segle XVIII-Segle XIX --- Europe --- China --- Europa --- Economic conditions --- Agriculture. --- Backwardness. --- Beijing. --- Calculation. --- Capital accumulation. --- Capital good. --- Capitalism. --- Cash crop. --- Central Asia. --- China. --- Coal. --- Commercialization. --- Commodity. --- Competition. --- Consumer Goods. --- Consumerism. --- Consumption (economics). --- Continental Europe. --- Crop residue. --- Crop rotation. --- Debt. --- Deforestation. --- Depreciation. --- Division of labour. --- Early modern Europe. --- East Asia. --- Eastern Europe. --- Ecology. --- Economic growth. --- Economics. --- Economy. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Europe. --- Expense. --- Famine. --- Fertilizer. --- Fossil fuel. --- Fuel. --- Great Divergence. --- Guangdong. --- Guangxi. --- Habib's. --- Handicraft. --- Hectare. --- Household. --- Income distribution. --- Income. --- Industrial Revolution. --- Industrialisation. --- Industrious Revolution. --- Industry. --- Institution. --- Laborer. --- Life expectancy. --- Livestock. --- Luxury goods. --- Malthusian catastrophe. --- Manure. --- Market economy. --- Measures of national income and output. --- Mining. --- New World Resources. --- Nitrogen. --- North America. --- North India. --- Output (economics). --- Peasant. --- Percentage. --- Plough. --- Political economy. --- Population growth. --- Precious metal. --- Primary sector of the economy. --- Proto-industrialization. --- Quantity. --- Raw material. --- Saving. --- Shaanxi. --- Shandong. --- Shortage. --- Sichuan. --- Slavery. --- Southeast Asia. --- Soybean. --- Standard of living. --- Supply (economics). --- Tael. --- Tariff. --- Tax. --- Technological change. --- Technology. --- Textile. --- The Other Hand. --- Wealth. --- Western Europe. --- Wheat. --- World economy. --- Year.