A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped
the world from the bestselling author of 1491. 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.
