1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created / Charles C. Mann.

"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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mann, Charles C.
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Columbus, Christopher > Influence.
History, Modern.
Economic history.
Commerce > History.
Agriculture > History.
Ecology > History.
Industrial revolution.
Slave trade > History.
America > Discovery and exploration > Economic aspects.
America > Discovery and exploration > Environmental aspects.
Physical Description:xix, 535 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.