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Seeds of Change: Five Hundred Years Since Columbus
Seeds of Change Five Hundred Years Since Columbus
Author: Herman J. Viola (Editor), Carolyn Margolis (Editor)
Describes the exchanges of animal, agricultural, and cultural products between the Old World and the New World during the five hundred years since Columbus's expeditions, assessing the damage and benefits to populations on both sides of the Atlantic. — Contents:     —
  • Seeds of change / Herman J. Viola 
  • The d...  more »
  • American food crops in the Old World / William H. McNeill 
  • New World, vineyard to the Old / Henry Hobhouse 
  • Metamorphosis of the Americas / Alfred W. Crosby 
  • Ranching in the New World / Deb Bennett and Robert S. Hoffmann 
  • Pleasure, profit, and satiation / Sidney W. Mintz 
  • Antigua slaves and their struggle to survive / David Barry Gaspar 
  • Galways plantation, Montserrat / Lydia M. Pulsipher 
  • Savoring Africa in the New World / Robert L. Hall 
  • Hispanic American heritage / Joseph P. Sanchez 
  • An American Indian perspective / George P. Horse Capture 
  • Health and disease in the pre-Columbian world / John W. Verano and Douglas H. Ubelaker 
  • Three faces of Eden / Stanwyn G. Shetler 
  • Nature's future / Steven King and Liliana Campos Dudley
ISBN-13: 9781560980360
ISBN-10: 1560980362
Publication Date: 8/17/1991
Pages: 277
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Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Press
Book Type: Paperback
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