1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- ISBN-10
- 0307265722
- ISBN-13
- 9780307265722
- Series
- 1493
- Category
- Business & Economics / Economic History
- Pages
- 535
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
- Author
- Charles C. Mann
Description
Reveals how the voyages of Columbus reintroduced plants and animals that had been separated millions of years earlier, documenting how the ensuing exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas fostered a European rise, decimated imperial China and rendered Manila and Mexico City the center of the world for two centuries. By the author of 1491. 150,000 first printing.
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- 2012
- 535 pages
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- 2011-09-15
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