1493 Uncovering the New World Columbus Created [Paperback]

A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of1491.

Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City—where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted—the center of the world. In this history, Mann uncovers the germ of today's fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In1493, Mann has again given readers an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination.

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Fascinating. . . . Lively. . . . A convincing explanation of why our world is the way it is.
—The New York Times Book Review 

Even the wisest readers will find many surprises here. . . . Like1491, Mann's sequel will change worldviews.
—San Francisco Chronicle 
 
Exemplary in its union of meaningful fact with good storytelling,1493ranges across continents and centuries to explain how the world we inhabit came to be.
—The Washington Post
 
“Engaging . . . Mann deftly illuminates contradictions on a human scale: the blind violence and terror at Jamestown, the cruel exploitation of labor in the silver mines of Bolivia, the awe felt by Europeans upon first seeing a rubber ball bounce.”
—The New Yorker

“Revelatory.”
—Lev Grossman,TimeMagazine
 
“Compelling and eye-opening.”
—Publishers WeeklyTop 100 Books of 20lƒ7