List of Maps, Graphs, Tables
Introduction: The Land is Waiting
Chapter 1. From the Caribbean to the Carpathians: The Coming of Cucuruz, c.1492-1700
Chapter 2. Conquerors, Cultivators, and Collaborators: Maize at Empire’s Edge, 1700-1774
Chapter 3. Conflict, Contagion and Commerce: The Triumph of Maize, 1774-1812
Chapter 4. Maize, Raki or Death: The Revolt of 1821 Reconsidered
Chapter 5. Mămăligă 2.0: Maize on the World Market, 1821-1856
Chapter 6. Independence, Capitalism, Disease and Revolt; Or, Why the Mămăligă Exploded, 1856-1907
Chapter 7. Manna valachorum: Recipes at the Interface
Chapter 8. ‘The sparrow dreams of cornmeal, and the idle man of a day of rest’: Mămăligă as Metaphor
Conclusion: The Land is Waiting
Appendix: Words and Things
Glossary
Mămăligography
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgements
Index
Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Literary and Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanian and Balkan social, cultural and literary history; on travel writing and circulation of ideas and images; and on European identity as a whole.
"A richly textured and fresh approach to the history of
eighteenth–nineteenth century Romania through the lens of maize and
the Romanian “national” dish mămăligă (boiled cornmeal). Much more
than a food history, The Making of Mămăligă is a holistic commodity
history that reveals the overlapping “imperial tectonics” of the
three empires that dominated east central Europe—the Russian,
Ottoman, Habsburg—with Romania uniquely situated at the confluence
of all three."
*Slavic Review*
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