1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World Book

Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent Pangea surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea and for millennia the hemispheres were separate evolving almost entirely different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's arrival in the Americas brought together these long-separate worlds. Many historians believe that this collision of ecosystems and cultures-the Columbian Exchange-was the most consequential event in human history since the Neolithic Revolution. And it was the most consequential event in biological history since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Beginning with the world of microbes and moving up the species ladder to mankind Mann rivetingly describes the profound effect this exchanging of species had on the culture of both continents.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    A sweeping, hugely readable account of history's biggest ecological invasion,when Europe and the Americas collided for the first time in millennia. Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent, Pangea...

  • ASDA

    A sweeping hugely readable account of history's biggest ecological invasion when Europe and the Americas collided for the first time in millennia.

  • 1847080499
  • 9781847080493
  • Charles Mann
  • 15 September 2011
  • Granta Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 544
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