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1493

Door Charles Mann

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#267970
Titel
1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World
Auteur
Mann, Charles
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London, Granta
Jaar van uitgave
2011
ISBN10
1847084044
ISBN13
9781847084040
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
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 cu... (Lees verder)lture of both continents.
Pagina's
535
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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