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An Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492: The Macat Library

Autor Joshua Specht, Etienne Stockland
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 iul 2017
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 colonizing 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781912302475
ISBN-10: 1912302470
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Macat Library
Colecția Macat Library
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Cuprins

Ways in to the Text  Who was Alfred W. Crosby?  What does The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Say?  Why does The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Matter?  Section 1: Influences  Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context  Module 2: Academic Context  Module 3: The Problem  Module 4: The Author's Contribution  Section 2: Ideas  Module 5: Main Ideas  Module 6: Secondary Ideas  Module 7: Achievement  Module 8: Place in the Author's Work  Section 3: Impact  Module 9: The First Responses  Module 10: The Evolving Debate  Module 11: Impact and Influence Today  Module 12: Where Next?  Glossary of Terms  People Mentioned in the Text  Works Cited

Notă biografică

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.

Descriere

Crosby’s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as—and sometimes more than—human factors.