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COASTAL RICE FARMING SYSTEMS IN GUINEA AND SIERRA LEONE - Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. By Edda L. Fields-Black. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. Pp. xviii+278. £22.99/$34.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-35219-4).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2010

ERIK GILBERT
ERIK GILBERT
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Arkansas State University
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Keywords

West AfricaGuineaSierra LeoneAfrican diasporaagricultureknowledgeprecolonial
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Book Review
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The Journal of African History , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , November 2009 , pp. 437 - 438
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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References

1 J. Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Cambridge, MA, 2001).

2 D. Eltis, P. D. Morgan, and D. Richardson, ‘Agency and diaspora in Atlantic history: reassessing the African contribution to rice cultivation in the Americas’, American Historical Review, 112:5 (2007), 1329–58.