1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

A deeply participating new historical past of how European settlements within the post-Colombian Americas formed the world, from the bestselling creator of 1491.

Presenting the newest analysis by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann exhibits how the post-Columbian community of ecological and financial change fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for 2 centuries made Mexico Metropolis—the place Asia, Europe, and the brand new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted—the middle of the world. On this historical past, Mann uncovers the germ of at the moment’s fiercest political disputes, from immigration to commerce coverage to tradition wars. In 1493, Mann has once more given readers an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our previous, unequaled in its authority and fascination.