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1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created
- Title
- 1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created / Charles C. Mann.
- Author
- Mann, Charles C.
- Publication
- New York : Knopf, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xix, 535 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Fourteen ninety-three
- Subjects
- Note
- Copyright date: 2011.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-509) and index.
- Contents
- In the Homogenocene. Two monuments. -- Atlantic Journeys. The tobacco coast ; Evil air. -- Pacific Journeys. Shiploads of money (Silk for silver, part one) ; Lovesick grass, foreign tubers, and jade rice (Silk for silver, part two). -- Europe in the World. The agro-industrial complex ; Black gold. -- Africa in the World. Crazy soup ; Forest of fugitives. -- Currents of Life. In Bulalacao. -- Fighting words ; Globalization in beta.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-3551
- ISBN
- 9780307265722 (hbk.)
- 0307265722 (hbk.)
- 9781617938191
- 161793819X
- LCCN
- 2011003408
- OCLC
- 682893439
- Author
- Mann, Charles C.
- Title
- 1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created / Charles C. Mann.
- Imprint
- New York : Knopf, 2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-509) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-3551