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"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"--… (más)
supersidvicious: 1493 offers a complete scientific overview about the world after Columbus whilst Long John Silver offers a credible picture about being a pirate that days
At first I found this book fascinating, but my interest started to peter out about halfway through—it offers a bit more information than I needed. Still, it's very well written and I learned a lot about how the world we live in now came to be. It's wild how much bugs and disease have affected global history and economics. ( )
As with the author's 1491, this book is encyclopedic about changes wrought onto the world's eco-systems as a result of Europeans, Africans, Native Americans and Asians - and their bacteria, viruses and parasites - across oceans. ( )
Rambling collection of historical stories all ostensibly associated with the post-Columbian exchange. I found it more pedestrian than 1491, and had read much of it elsewhere. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To the woman who built my house, and is my home. --CCM
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Although it had just finished raining, the air was hot and close.
[Prologue] Like other books, this one began in a garden.
[Coda] In the Philippines, children learn a falk song called "Bahay Kubo"--the title refers to the single-room house made of palm leaves that was long traditional on the islands.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
They were agents of humankind's unending quest to enlace its most far-flung members in a single skein, a journey whoe endpoints the travelers have rarely been able to anticipate.
[Prologue] How did those tomatoes get to Ukraine, anyway? One way to describe this book would be to say that it represents, long after I first asked the question, my best efforts find out.
"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"--
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