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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

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331:, appreciates the interesting tales Mann tells, writing, "He makes even the most unpromising-sounding subjects fascinating. I, for one, will never look at a piece of rubber in quite the same way now that I have been introduced to the debauched nouveaux riches of 19th-century Brazil, guzzling Champagne from bathtubs and gunning one another down in the streets of Manaus." Gregory McNamee in 593: 29: 241:
that is marked by a global homogenization of (agricultural) species, diseases, and tools brought about by the migration and transport that set in with the discovery of the new world. Modern global food production largely relies on
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in African slaves impacted the world in its culture, food, agriculture, and history. The slaves who managed to escape formed isolated communities, sometimes forging alliances with
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that he says did not exist on the American continent. Potatoes and tobacco were exchanged for silver in China.
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such as tobacco caused soil erosion and flooding. Colonization also brought the infectious diseases of
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world civilization. It follows on from Mann's previous book on the Americas prior to Columbus,
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1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World
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The book was adapted for younger readers by Rebecca Stefoff and published by
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was used as a fertilizer in Europe. The author ends by describing how the
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
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1493 for Young People: From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization
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first published in 2011. It covers the global effects of the
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In his book, Mann argues that Columbus paved the way to the
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Non-fiction books about indigenous peoples of the Americas
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first landing in the Americas, that led to our current
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Charles C. Mann
World History
Columbian Exchange
Nonfiction
History
Knopf
hardcover
ISBN
978-0-307-26572-2
OCLC
682893439
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
nonfiction
book
Charles C. Mann
Columbian Exchange
Columbus's
globalized
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
homogenocene
anthropocene
invasive species
Granta Books
Seven Stories Press
Columbian Exchange
Monocultures
malaria

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