| Main Title |
1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus / |
| Author |
Mann, Charles C.,
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| Publisher |
Knopf, |
| Year Published |
2005 |
| OCLC Number |
56632601 |
| ISBN |
9781400040063; 140004006X; 9781400032051; 1400032059 |
| Subjects |
Indians--Origin ;
Indians--History ;
Indians--Antiquities ;
America--Antiquities ;
America--History--To 1810 ;
Indians of South America--History ;
Altamerika ;
Inheemse volken ;
Native Americans--Antiquities--North America ;
Native Americans--Antiquities--South America ;
Native Americans--North America--History ;
NATIVE AMERICANS--North America--Origin ;
Native Americans--South America--History ;
Native Americans--South America--Origin
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| Internet Access |
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EHAM NAR |
NAR-63 |
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Region 1 Library/Boston,MA |
03/21/2020 |
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| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Collation |
xii, 465 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-449) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
A view from above -- Why Billington survived -- In the land of four quarters -- Frequently asked questions -- Pleistocene wars -- Cotton (or anchovies) and maize (Tales of two civilizations, part I) -- Writing, wheels, and bucket brigades (Tales of two civilizations, part II) -- Made in America -- Amazonia -- The artificial wilderness -- Coda: The great law of peace. Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities -- such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital -- were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets. The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids. Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings. Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process that the journal Science recently described as "man's first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering. |
| Place Published |
New York |
| Alternate Title |
New revelations of the Americas before Columbus |
| PUB Date Free Form |
2005 |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Medium |
unmediated |
| Content |
text |
| Carrier |
volume |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
2004061547 |
| Merged OCLC records |
65338878; 779025792; 798580527; 891138106; 962878851; 1003744464; 1003823074; 1004923495; 1009547876; 1011745669; 1014353143; 1015690382; 1066124594; 1128049643 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
20200319050606 |
| Language |
eng |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
05650cam 22008894a 45010 |
