1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created / Charles C. Mann.
Mann, Charles C.
2011
D228 .M36 2011 (Mapit)
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Title 1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created / Charles C. Mann.
Author Mann, Charles C.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780307265722
0307265722
Publication Details New York [N.Y.] : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Language English
Description xix, 535 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number D228 .M36 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 909/.4
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction. In the Homogenocene. Two monuments
pt. 1. Atlantic journeys. The tobacco coast ; Evil air
pt. 2. Pacific journeys. Shiploads of money (Silk for silver, part one) ; Lovesick grass, foreign tubers, and jade rice (Silk for silver, part two)
pt. 3. Europe in the world. The agro-industrial complex ; Black gold
pt. 4. Africa in the world. Crazy soup ; Forest of fugitives
Coda. Currents of life. In Bulalacao
Appendixes. A. Fighting words ; B. Globalization in beta.

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