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Chapters: The incorporation of maize in Africa by Bruce D. Roberts The cultivar as civilizer: European and Samburu perspectives on cultivar diffusion by Jon D. Holtzman Miskito foods, Miskito forests: Crop adoption and the alteration of an indigenous landscape by David J. Dodds The root and the problem: Cassava toxicity and diffusion to Africa by John Frechione Sweet interloper by Mary Weismantel & Sidney W. Mintz The capsicums in Old World culinary structures by Susan Tax Freeman The perilous potato and the terrifying tomato by Stanley Brandes Kuku -- "God of the Motuites": European tobacco in colonial New Guinea by Terence E. Hays Tuber transformations: The impact of the sweet potato in the Indo-Pacific by Richard Scaglion & Todd R. Hooe Coffee: The mechanism of transition to a money economy by Paula Brown