I, for one, will never look at a piece of rubber in quite the same way now that I have been introduced to the debauched nouveaux riches of 19th-century Brazil, guzzling Champagne from bathtubs and gunning one another down in the streets of Manaus. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. Yet readers tempted to skim through Mann's examination of Chinese agricultural policy or the worldwide guano market will find focus in his final chapters. But 140 years on, the chain of events they set off has brought social upheaval and the threat of ecological collapse to this remote corner of the world. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Once begun, the process ran completely out of human control. The book takes a roughly chronological approach, beginning in 1493 and continuing to 2011, and ranges across almost every continent. Engaging and well-written. For all but the scientifically insatiable, reading "1493" may be like listening to that zealous science teacher so many of us had. If there is a rival candidate for the event that changed the course of history then it would have to be industrialisation, with its extraordinary impact on urbanisation, life expectancy, productivity and resource depletion.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2017. Tobacco was so much at home there that in the 17th century, Mann writes, “priests were celebrating Mass with lighted cigars.” Pope Urban VIII sent out a memo banning smoking in church, but no matter; across the whole of the Eurasian landmass, the New World had found vast markets for its signal product, which has only recently begun to relax its hold. That question could give rise to a hundred books. . . But that’s OK, because in 1493 we can take an even more exhilarating ride. . And that prize, writes journalist and historian Charles C. Mann in his new book, “1493,” “threw Spain’s elite into delirium.” The country’s rulers launched wars against the mighty Ottoman Empire and other Muslim powers, to say nothing of fellow Christians elsewhere in Europe.
When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Like 1491, Mann’s sequel will change worldviews.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Exemplary in its union of meaningful fact with good storytelling, 1493 ranges across continents and centuries to explain how the world we inhabit came to be.” Please try again later. It is rare that an author has the talent to impart facts, attendant theories, and well researched history without putting his readers to sleep; Charles C. Mann is such an author and "1493" is such a book. Charles C. Mann, a correspondent for The Atlantic, Science, and Wired, has also written for Fortune, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post, as well as for the TV network HBO and the series Law & Order. . Literate and surprising, "1491" was a welcome bridge between the academic and popular imaginations. America, that vast new market, was soon absorbing European goods and customs, even as indigenous homelands were being transformed by introduced animals and crops into “ecological versions of Europe, landscapes the foreigners could use more comfortably than could their original inhabitants.” America became an extension of Europe, its people and resources commodities to use up. A lively account of how Columbus's voyage changed history, Looking to the future: the Discoverer's Monument in Lisbon. Columbus died before he could undertake that quest, but one of the goods he helped introduce arrived in China soon after, “exciting, habit-forming, vaguely louche” — namely, tobacco, which found a ready market there. Mann is possessed of an intense curiosity rather than being driven by pattern-seeking. Mann argues that Africa was a continent of cattle herders and horse riders when this was not true of the huge forested zones of Central and West Africa, from where most of the slaves came. . . Meanwhile, this one, fascinating and complex, exemplary in its union of meaningful fact with good storytelling, ranges across continents and centuries to explain how the world we inhabit came to be. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he is the recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. Mann also traces the mixed blessings of the Exchange, investigating the spread of corn, bananas, livestock, coffee and sugarcane. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is a nonfiction book by Charles C. Mann first published in 2011. Editor's Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans, Discover Book Picks from the CEO of Penguin Random House US. .
. A vignette on the first European encounter with rubber, for example, leads not just to the opening of the rubber trade but to 35 pages on the processing, politics and scope of the rubber industry worldwide. Beautifully written, and packed with startling research, 1493 is a monumental achievement.” —David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z “[1493] is readable and well-written, based on his usual broad research, travels and interviews. ", Authors lacking Mann's boundless curiosity might have limited that New World to the Western Hemisphere. [Mann’s book] deserves a prominent place among that very rare class of books that can make a difference in how we see the world, although it is neither a polemic nor a work of advocacy. In 1491, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were … He makes even the most unpromising-sounding subjects fascinating. We are experiencing technical difficulties. I am about to purchase his earlier books to continue the journey. In his best-selling "1491," Mann packed a generation of the latest scholarship into breezy prose to convince readers that Indians - he balks at the use of Native American - were as technologically sophisticated as the Europeans Columbus left behind. The book's extensive discussions of Chinese agriculture and manufacture are a strong feature even where they don't quite convince. . Coming from Colombia, but living in Europe, I look forward to reading this.
Charles C. Mann begins his book 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created with a discussion of his vegetable garden. More journalist than scholar, he also drops in on contemporary scientists and historians, whom he seems to have studied in abundance. August 2011. Unable to add item to List. Suddenly navigation made trade easier and conquest became a priority, with the European 'superpowers' of the time all wanting a piece of the action. This book has had a huge influence in academia (it was one of the main inspirations for Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Guns, Germs, and Steel”), but Mann has long felt it needed updating. I ordered this in hard copy for my father in law. Mann shows how the ecological collision of Europe and the Americas transformed virtually every aspect of human history. . Mann adds the unknown story of their surprisingly important role in both the American Revolution and the Civil War. In 1493, Mann has again given readers an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination. Mann's enormous ambition in "1493" is summed up in his subtitle: "Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.
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In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. Here Mann zeroes in on the harshest of Columbus' legacies, the slave trade. In such encounters, he uncovers the germ of today’s fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars.In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination. It is fascinating learning out crops today that are important economic contributors to various countries were acquired post-Columbus. In 1491, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were almost impassable barriers.
He serves up one arresting detail after another, always in vivid language. A convincing explanation of why our world is the way it is." . Back in the 1870s, for instance, the British government, worried about its rubber supplies, offered to buy every rubber seed that could be smuggled out of Brazil. The subject matter is fascinating but there must be an awful lot of appendices and indexes because the Kindle is asking me to review it at 49% and each chapter has already had notes. Mann repeatedly emphasizes that the numbers do not bear this out. Only trouble is I now have to read more! “1493” picks up where Mann’s best seller, “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” left off. From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.
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Charles Mann's new book, with its ambitious title, is cheerfully eclectic rather than doctrinaire. Like Ferguson, Mann starts with an accolade to the western corporation, laissez-faire and the wisdom of Adam Smith. . Again, he inserts himself into his narrative, roaming the world to dig tuckahoe roots in Virginia, find Columbus' landing place in the Caribbean and sail pirate-infested waters in the East China Sea. SF tech execs apologize for addicting features in... New ‘Borat’ movie is a master class on... Legacy SF dive bar continues its mutilating... Why the oldest Netflix Original is still my favorite.
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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. But "1493" asks readers to absorb key concepts in biology, agronomy, epidemiology, chemistry, genetics and more. Mann might be faulted for sometimes seeming to forget that since 1492 it has overwhelmingly been Europeans (not Africans or Native Americans) who have put animals, plants and microbes into motion, but his larger points still stand.
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