The Columbian Exchange
Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492 sparked the movement of organisms, both large and small, in both directions across the Atlantic. This Columbian exchange, between the Old World and the New, changed the history of our planet drastically and forever.\ The book The Columbian...
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"The best thing about this book is its overarching thesis, the concept of a Columbian exchange. This provocative device permits Crosby to shape a lot of familiar and seemingly unrelated data into a fresh synthesis. . . . The implications of this interplay between novel biological and social forces are fascinating." Journal of American History
List of IllustrationsForewordPreface to the 2003 EditionForewordPreface to the 1972 Edition1The Contrasts32Conquistador y Pestilencia353Old World Plants and Animals in the New World644The Early History of Syphilis: A Reappraisal1225New World Foods and Old World Demography1656The Columbian Exchange Continues208Bibliography222Bibliography to the 2003 Edition261Index277
