Alfred W. Crosby Jr.

The Columbian Exchange

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Columbian exchange, between the Old World and the New, changed the history of our planet drastically and forever. The book The Columbian Exchange changed the field of history drastically and forever as well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• 30. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780275980924
• ISBN-10: 0275980928
• Artikelnr.: 22221236

Autorenporträt

Alfred W. Crosby, Jr. is professor emeritus of American studies, history, and geography at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (1986), America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (1989), The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 (1997), and most recently Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Foreword (2002) Preface (2002) Foreword (1972)
Preface (1972) The Contrasts Conquistador y Pestilencia Old World Plants
and Animals in the New World The Early History of Syphilis: A Reappraisal
New World Foods and Old World Demography The Columbian Exchange Continues
Bibliography (1972) Bibliography (2002) Index