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. In this history Mann uncovers the germ of today's fiercest political
disputes from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In 1493 Mann has again given
readers an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past unequaled in its authority and
fascination.
