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1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus

Title
1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus / Charles C. Mann.
Author
Mann, Charles C.
Publication
New York : Knopf, 2005.
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xii, 465 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets. The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids. Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings. Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process that the journal Science recently described as "man's first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering."--Publisher description.
Alternative Title
New revelations of the Americas before Columbus
Subject
  • To 1810
  • Indians > Origin
  • Indians > History
  • Indians > Antiquities
  • Antiquities
  • Indians
  • America > Antiquities
  • America > History > To 1810
  • America
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-449) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Holmberg's mistake. View from above -- Numbers from nowhere?. Why Billington survived ; In the land of four quarters ; Frequently asked questions -- Very old bones. Pleistocene wars ; Cotton (or anchovies) and maize (tales of two civilizations, part I) ; Writing, wheels, and bucket brigades (tales of two civilizations, part II) -- Landscape with figures. Made in America ; Amazonia ; Artificial wilderness -- Coda : The great law of peace.
Call Number
JGE 05-206
ISBN
  • 9781400040063
  • 140004006X
LCCN
  • 2004061547
  • 9781400040063
OCLC
56632601
Author
Mann, Charles C.
Title
1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus / Charles C. Mann.
Imprint
New York : Knopf, 2005.
Edition
1st ed.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-449) and index.
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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Chronological Term
To 1810
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Online version: Mann, Charles C. 1491. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2005 (OCoLC)656704174
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9781400040063
Research Call Number
JGE 05-206
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