1493 Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C Mann

A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the postColombian Americas shaped the world from the bestselling author of 1491. Presenting the latest research by biologists anthropologists archaeologists and historians Mann shows how the postColumbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe devastated imperial China convulsed Africa and for two centuries made Mexico Citywhere Asia Europe and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted