Examines the arc “of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled silver mountain of sixteenth-century Bolivia fund economic development in the flood-prone plains of rural China and the wars of the Spanish Empire? Here is the story of how sometimes the greatest leaps also posed the greatest threats to human advancement”–
Author: Charles Mann
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Triangle Square
Published: 01/26/2016
Series: For Young People
Pages: 416
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781609806637
Language: English
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