Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity

Corn, a plant pivotal to the lives of countless people the world over, has alternately suffered, thrived under, and resisted the pressures of modernization, dev

Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity

Agriculture played an important role in the transition to capitalism in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. In her study, Sue Headlee argues that t

How American industries rose to dominate the economic landscape in the twentieth century For much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world