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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- Mann, Charles C.
- ISBN
- 9780307265722
- Book Title
- 1493 : Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Science, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Slavery, Life Sciences / Ecology, Economic History, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Adventurers & Explorers, Commerce, Agriculture / General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Modern / General, Expeditions & Discoveries
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 33.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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From the author of 1491-- the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history of 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 radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. Earthworms, mosquitoes, and cockroaches; honeybees, dandelions, and African grasses; bacteria, fungi, and viruses; rats of every description--all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet. Eight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. He sailed west to establish continual trade with China, then the richest, most powerful country in the world. In Manila, a city Legazpi founded, silver from the Americas, mined by African and Indian slaves, was sold to Asians in return for silk for Europeans. It was the first time that goods and people from every corner of the globe were connected in a single worldwide exchange. Much as Columbus created a new world biologically, Legazpi and the Spanish empire he served created a new world economically. As Charles C. Mann shows, the Columbian Exchange underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City--where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted--the center of the world. In such encounters, he uncovers the germ of today's fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307265722
ISBN-13
9780307265722
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99406477
Product Key Features
Book Title
1493 : Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Slavery, Life Sciences / Ecology, Economic History, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Adventurers & Explorers, Commerce, Agriculture / General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Modern / General, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Science, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
33.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D228.M36 2011
Reviews
"Charles C. Mann glories in reality, immersing his reader in complexity. He launches across the Atlantic with Columbus and swings port and starboard through time and space over the whole of the world. The worn clich s crumble as readers gain introductions to the freshest of the systems of analysis gendered in the first post-Columbian millennium." -Alfred W. Crosby, author of The Columbian Exchange "In the wake of his groundbreaking book 1491 Charles Mann has once again produced a brilliant and riveting work that will forever change the way we see the world. Mann shows how the ecological collision of Europe and the Americas transformed virtually every aspect of human history. Beautifully written, and packed with startling research, 1493 is a monumental achievement." -David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z "In 1491 Charles Mann brilliantly described the Americas on the eve of Columbus's voyage. Now in 1493 he tells how the world was changed forever by the movement of foods, metals, plants, people and diseases between the 'New World' and both Europe and China. His book is readable and well-written, based on his usual broad research, travels and interviews. A fascinating and important topic, admirably told." -John Hemming, author of Tree of Rivers "Fascinating . . . Convincing . . . A spellbinding account of how an unplanned collision of unfamiliar animals, vegetables, minerals and diseases produced unforeseen wealth, misery, social upheaval and the modern world." -Starred review, Kirkus "A fascinating survey . . . A lucid historical panorama that's studded with entertaining studies of Chinese pirate fleets, courtly tobacco rituals, and the bloody feud between Jamestown colonists and the Indians who fed and fought them, to name a few. Brilliantly assembling colorful details into big-picture insights, Mann's fresh challenge to Eurocentric histories puts interdependence at the origin of modernity." -Starred review, Publishers Weekly "Charles Mann expertly shows how the complex, interconnected ecological and economic consequences of the European discovery of the Americas shaped many unexpected aspects of the modern world. This is an example of the best kind of history book: one that changes the way you look at the world, even as it informs and entertains." -Tom Standage, author of A History of the World in Six Glasses "A landmark book . . . Entrancingly provocative, 1493 bristles with illuminations, insights and surprises." -John McFarland, Shelf Awareness "Fascinating . . . Engaging and well-written . . . Information and insight abound on every page. This dazzling display of erudition, theory and insight will help readers to view history in a fresh way." -Roger Bishop, BookPage, "A muscular, densely documented follow-up [toMann's 1491] . . . Like its predecessor, 1493 runs to more than 400 pages, but it moves at a gallop . . . As a historian Mann should be admired not just for his broad scope and restless intelligence but for his biological senstivity. At every point of his tale he keeps foremost in his mind the effect of humans' activities on the broader environment they inhabit." -Alfred W. Crosby, The Wall Street Journal "In the wake of his groundbreaking book 1491 Charles Mann has once again produced a brilliant and riveting work that will forever change the way we see the world. Mann shows how the ecological collision of Europe and the Americas transformed virtually every aspect of human history. Beautifully written, and packed with startling research, 1493 is a monumental achievement." -David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z "Spirited . . . One thing is indisputable: Mann is definitely global in his outlook and tribal in his thinking . . . Mann's taxonomy of the ecological, political, religious, economic, anthropological and mystical melds together in an intriguing whole cloth." -Jonathan E. Lazarus, The [Newark] Star-Ledger "Fascinating . . . Convincing . . . A spellbinding account of how an unplanned collision of unfamiliar animals, vegetables, minerals and diseases produced unforeseen wealth, misery, social upheaval and the modern world." -Starred review, Kirkus "A landmark book . . . Entrancingly provocative, 1493 bristles with illuminations, insights and surprises." -John McFarland, Shelf Awareness "A fascinating survey . . . A lucid historical panorama that's studded with entertaining studies of Chinese pirate fleets, courtly tobacco rituals, and the bloody feud between Jamestown colonists and the Indians who fed and fought them, to name a few. Brilliantly assembling colorful details into big-picture insights, Mann's fresh challenge to Eurocentric histories puts interdependence at the origin of modernity." -Starred review, Publishers Weekly "In 1491 Charles Mann brilliantly described the Americas on the eve of Columbus's voyage. Now in 1493 he tells how the world was changed forever by the movement of foods, metals, plants, people and diseases between the 'New World' and both Europe and China. His book is readable and well-written, based on his usual broad research, travels and interviews. A fascinating and important topic, admirably told." -John Hemming, author of Tree of Rivers "Fascinating . . . Engaging and well-written . . . Information and insight abound on every page. This dazzling display of erudition, theory and insight will help readers to view history in a fresh way." -Roger Bishop, BookPage "Charles Mann expertly shows how the complex, interconnected ecological and economic consequences of the European discovery of the Americas shaped many unexpected aspects of the modern world. This is an example of the best kind of history book: one that changes the way you look at the world, even as it informs and entertains." -Tom Standage, author of A History of the World in Six Glasses
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2011-003408
Dewey Decimal
909/.4
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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