Africa, Its Domesticates, and Their Globalization

By Christopher Cumo

Integrating the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and physical sciences, this book examines the global impact of African crops and livestock from prehistory to the present. Seeking an audience of historians, Africanists, geographers, anthropologists, agricultural scientists, biologists, and chemists, the book's evolutionary approach contextualizes the story of African domesticates within humankind's global migrations and efforts to remake the biota and economy along the way. This approach emphasizes, contrary to many agropastoral studies, that African crops and livestock have long played an indispensable global role. The modern world, for example, is unimaginable without Africa's coffee and cotton, both shaping the international economy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1036477762
• ISBN13: 9781036477769
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.0"