@article{425822,
      recid = {425822},
      author = {Mann, Charles C.},
      title = {1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created /},
      publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf,},
      address = {New York [N.Y.] :},
      pages = {xix, 535 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the  pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that  explores the most momentous biological event since the  death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago,  geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from  each other, the two halves of the world developed totally  different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages  brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an  extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia  and the Americas. As Charles Mann shows, this global  ecological tumult--the "Columbian Exchange"--underlies much  of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest  generation of research by scientists, Mann shows how the  creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the  rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed  Africa, and for two centuries made Manila and Mexico City--  where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas  dynamically interacted--the center of the world. In 1493,  Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific  interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and  fascination"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/425822},
}