Mann's "1493" is a fine follow-on to his earlier "1491", which looked at the current state of knowledge about what the Americas and their native societies looked like on the eve of European arrival. "1493" draws on Alfred Crosby's "Ecological Imperialism" to examine what's now called the "Columbi...
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wild...