Journal of Captain Henry Dearborn in the Quebec expedition, 1775

The role of disease is discussed by Gerald Hart-wig and K. David Patterson, eds., Disease in African History (Durham: Duke University Press, 1978). As for food production, many of the listed further readings for Chapters 4-10 discuss Africa. Also of note are Christopher Ehret, "On the antiquity of agriculture in Ethiopia," Journal of African History 20:161-77 (1979); J. Desmond Clark and Steven Brandt, eds., From Hunters to Farmers: TheCauses and Consequences of Food Production in Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984); Art Hansen and Delia McMillan, eds., FURTHERREADINGS • 455 Food in Sub-Saharan Africa (Boulder, Colo.: Rienner, 1986); Fred Wen-dorf et al., "Saharan exploitation of plants 8,000 years b.p.," Nature 359:721-24 (1992); Andrew Smith, Pastoralism in Africa (London: Hurst, 1992); and Andrew Smith, "Origin and spread of pastoralism in Africa," Annual Reviews of Anthropology 21:125-41 (1992). For information about Madagascar, two starting points are Robert Dewar and Henry Wright, "The culture history of Madagascar," Journalof World Prehistory 7:417-66 (1993), and Pierre Verin, The History of Civilization in North Madagascar (Rotterdam: Balkema, 1986) ...»