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The Columbian Exchange (Hardcover)
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The Columbian Exchange (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it
in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from
scholars in other disciplines. This is not a charge that can be
laid at the door of Alfred Crosby. His book The Columbian Exchange
not only incorporates the results of wide reading in the hard
sciences, anthropology and geography, but also stands as one of the
foundation stones of the study of environmental history. In this
sense, Crosby's defining work is undoubtedly a fine example of the
critical thinking skill of creativity; it comes up with new
connections that explain the European success in colonizing the New
World more as the product of biological catastrophe (in the shape
of the introduction of new diseases) than of the actions of men,
and posits that the most important consequences were not political
- the establishment of new empires - but cultural and culinary; the
population of China tripled, for example, as the result of the
introduction of new world crops. Few new hypotheses have proved as
stimulating or influential.
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