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The Columbian Exchange
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This book is ideal for readers interested in environmental history, anthropology, and the interconnectedness of global ecosystems, as well as those seeking a fresh perspective on the outcomes of European exploration and colonisation.
Crosby’s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as—and sometimes more than—human factors.
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One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines. This is not a charge that can be laid at the door of Alfred Crosby. His book The Columbian Exchange not only incorporates the results of wide reading in the hard sciences, anthropology, and geography, but also stands as one of the foundation stones of the study of environmental history.
In this sense, Crosby's defining work is undoubtedly a fine example of the critical thinking skill of creativity; it comes up with new connections that explain the European success in colonising the New World more as the product of biological catastrophe (in the shape of the introduction of new diseases) than of the actions of men, and posits that the most important consequences were not political – the establishment of new empires – but cultural and culinary; the population of China tripled, for example, as the result of the introduction of new world crops. Few new hypotheses have proved as stimulating or influential.
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ISBN: 9781912302475
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 July 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Macat International Limited
Audience: General / adult
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Pages: 96
About the Author
Dr Joshua Specht completed his PhD in History at Harvard in 2014, working on the Environmental History of the cattle trade in nineteenth-century America. He is currently a lecturer in History at Monash University.
Etienne Stockland is researching a PhD in Environmental History at Columbia University.
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