by Charles C. Mann
Another read that fell into the dark times between GoodReads and BookLikes. Mann is brilliant at synthesizing the work of many different people, and presenting it in a zippy narrative. I learned a whole lot about the Columbian exchange, and how a global economy created the world we now know. Plus,...
1493 is all over the place...and that's a good thing. Charles C. Mann's follow up to his spectacular 1491 look at the pre-Columbian Americas is quite an admirable undertaking. Here he looks at the consequences of Columbus's voyages to the Americas. For better and/or for worse they had far reaching a...
Maybe not quite as good as 1491? But probably just because I was more interested in the subject matter there. Once again, Mann has written a kickass book. I really dig this guy.
A cornucopia of interesting information, from the Samurai in 1600's Mexico to the history of the potatoe in Europe to current rubber farming in Laos. However, the books feels a bit like a huge journalistic article that weaves together all these colorful threads into something thats still shy of a co...
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