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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world—from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. • "Fascinating...Lively...A convincing explanation of why our world is the way it is." —The New York Times Book Review
Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows...
Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows...
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Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press
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[2014]
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English
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"1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europeand then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled...
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