1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created / Charles C. Mann.
By: Mann, Charles C [author]
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BookPublisher: London : Granta, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xxviii, 690 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847082459 (paperback) :; 1847082459 (paperback) :.Other title: Fourteen ninety three.Subject(s): History, Modern | Economic historyDDC classification: 909.4 MAN | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| 902.02 CRO History without the boring bits / | 904 PER Eyewitness to disaster / | 909.0971241082 MOR Farewell the trumpets : an imperial retreat / | 909.4 MAN 1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created / | 909 CIV Civilizations of the world : the human adventure volume C: from 1800/ | 909 MAR A history of the world / | 909 UNS A history of the world / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A sweeping, hugely readable account of history's biggest ecological invasion, when Europe and the Americas collided for the first time in millennia.
Originally published: 2011.
Formerly CIP. Uk.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Two monuments -- The tobacco coast -- Evil air -- Shiploads of money (Silk for silver, part one) -- Lovesick grass, foreign tubers, and jade rice (Silk for silver, part two) -- The agro-industrial complex -- Black gold -- Crazy soup -- Forest of fugitives -- In Bulalacao -- Appendixes. A. Fighting words -- B. Globalization in beta.