1493 for Younger Folks: From Columbus’s Voyage to Globalization (For Younger Folks Collection)

1493 for Younger Folks by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization by way of journey, commerce, colonization, and migration from its beginnings within the fifteenth century to the current. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor throughout Europe after which trigger the deaths of thousands and thousands? How did the rubber plant allow industrialization? What’s the connection between malaria, slavery, and the result of the American Revolution? How did the fabled silver mountain of sixteenth-century Bolivia fund financial growth within the flood-prone plains of rural China and the wars of the Spanish Empire? Right here is the story of how typically the best leaps additionally posed the best threats to human development.

Mann’s language is as plainspoken and clear as it’s provocative, his analysis and erudition huge, his conclusions ones that can stimulate the essential pondering of younger folks.
1493 for Younger Folks offers instruments for wrestling with probably the most urgent problems with right now, and can empower younger folks as they wrestle with a altering world.