1493 for Young People: From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization (For Young People Series)

By Charles Mann.

1493 for Young People: From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization (For Young People Series)

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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 Europe and 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 silver mountain of sixteenth-century Bolivia fund economic development in the flood-prone plains of rural China and the wars of the Spanish E...

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1609806638, 9781609806637

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