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The Columbian Exchange

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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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ISBN: 9781912302475
Publication date: 15th July 2017
Author: Joshua Specht, Etienne Stockland
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 96 pages
Series: The Macat Library
Genres: Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints
Philosophy
Political science and theory
Study and learning skills: general
History
Literary theory