1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

2011 nonfiction book by Charles C. Mann August 2024 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created 1493 Mann Knopf 2011.jpg Charles C. Mann United States English World HistoryColumbian Exchange NonfictionHistory Knopf 9 August 2011 Print (hardcover) 560 978-0-307-26572-2 682893439 909/.4 D228 .M36 2011 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is a nonfiction book by Charles C. Mann first published in 2011.Mann Charles C. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created 2011 Knopf New York 978-0-307-26572-2 https://archive.org/details/1493uncoveringne00mann It covers the global effects of the Columbian Exchange, following Columbus's first landing in the Americas, that led to our current globalized world civilization. Mann Charles C. Terry Gross In '1493,' Columbus Shaped A World To Be; talking about his book 1493 Radio Interview https://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/138924127/in-1493-columbus-shaped-a-world-to-be NPR Fresh Air WHYY-FM 8 August 2011 20 September 2011 Mann Charles C. Richard Rodriguez 1493: Uncovering the new World Columbus Created Television Interview https://www.c-span.org/program/history-bookshelf/1493-uncovering-the-new-world-columbus-created/262047 ALOUD at Central Library, Los Angeles Public Library C-SPAN Los Angeles, California September 26, 2011 March 29, 2026 It follows on from Mann's previous book on the Americas prior to Columbus, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.Mann Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 2005 Knopf New York 1-4000-4006-X Charles C. Mann (writer) https://archive.org/details/1491newrevelatio00mann In his book, Mann argues that Columbus paved the way to the homogenocene, a particular feature of the anthropocene that is marked by a global homogenization of (agricultural) species, diseases, and tools brought about by the migration and transport that set in with the discovery of the new world. Modern global food production largely relies on “invasive species” (crops, livestock) that existed only regionally before the establishment of the new trade and transport paths. Different titles In the United Kingdom, the book is published by Granta Books and is titled 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. The book was adapted for younger readers by Rebecca Stefoff and published by Seven Stories Press in 2015 as 1493 for Young People: From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization.1493 for Young People - Seven Stories Press https://www.sevenstories.com/books/2809-1493-for-young-people 2024-10-24 Seven Stories Press en Synopsis The author describes the Columbian Exchange and its global impact. Monocultures such as tobacco caused soil erosion and flooding. Colonization also brought the infectious diseases of malaria and yellow fever that he says did not exist on the American continent. Potatoes and tobacco were exchanged for silver in China. Guano from the Andes was used as a fertilizer in Europe. The author ends by describing how the triangular trade in African slaves impacted the world in its culture, food, agriculture, and history. The slaves who managed to escape formed isolated communities, sometimes forging alliances with Indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups. Reception Ian Morris, in his review in The New York Times, appreciates the interesting tales Mann tells, writing, "He makes even the most unpromising-sounding subjects fascinating. I, for one, will never look at a piece of rubber in quite the same way now that I have been introduced to the debauched nouveaux riches of 19th-century Brazil, guzzling Champagne from bathtubs and gunning one another down in the streets of Manaus."Morris Ian Seeds, Germs and Slaves https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/1493-uncovering-the-new-world-columbus-created-by-charles-c-mann-book-review.html?pagewanted=all 20 September 2011 The New York Times Sunday Book Review 19 August 2011 Gregory McNamee in The Washington Post finds 1493 "fascinating and complex, exemplary in its union of meaningful fact with good storytelling."McNamee Gregory 26 August 2011 '1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created,' by Charles C. Mann https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/1493-uncovering-the-new-world-columbus-created-by-charles-c-mann/2011/08/01/gIQAQ4tSeJ_story.html 24 October 2024 The Washington Post See also 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus American Holocaust Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World References Category:Christopher Columbus Category:History books about North America Category:History books about South America Category:2011 non-fiction books Category:History of Indigenous peoples of North America Category:Non-fiction books about Indigenous peoples of the Americas Category:Alfred A. Knopf books