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Charles C. Mann
Charles C. Mann is the author of 1493, a New York Times best-seller, and 1491, which won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Keck award for the best book of the year. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and... show more

Charles C. Mann is the author of 1493, a New York Times best-seller, and 1491, which won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Keck award for the best book of the year. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many newspapers and magazines here and abroad, including National Geographic, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post. In addition to 1491 and 1493, he is the co-author of five other books, one of which is a young person's version of 1491 called Before Columbus. His website is www.charlesmann.org.
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Charles C. Mann's Books
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created - Charles C. Mann Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 - Charles C. Mann Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species - Charles C. Mann, Mark L. Plummer At Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion - David H. Freedman, Charles C. Mann Cimarronin: A Samurai in New Spain #1 - Neal Stephenson, Charles C. Mann, Mark Teppo, Ellis Amdur, Robert Sammelin British Policy and Strategy towards Norway, 1941-45 (Studies in Military and Strategic History) - C. Mann Ancient Americans: Rewriting the History of the New World - Charles C. Mann At Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion - Charles C. Mann, David H. Freedman Cimarronin: The Complete Graphic Novel -... Cimarronin: The Complete Graphic Novel - Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo, Charles C. Mann, Ellis Amdur, Dean Kotz, Robert Sammelin The Wizard and the Prophet - Charles C. Mann Viva Guadalupe!: The Virgin in New Mexican Popular Art - Jacqueline Orsini Dunnington, Charles C. Mann The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine & 100 Years of Rampant Competition - Charles C. Mann, Mark L. Plummer Cimarronin: Fall of the Cross (Kindle Serial) - Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo, Charles C. Mann, Ellis Amdur, Dean Kotz The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkab... The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World - Charles C. Mann Food Policy, Frameworks for Analysis and... Food Policy, Frameworks for Analysis and Action - Charles C. Mann, Barbara Huddleston
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created - Charles C. Mann
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created - Charles C. Mann
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 - Charles C. Mann
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Community Reviews
Merle
Merle rated it 5 years ago
text 1491 by Charles Mann
This is an important book. The author compiles historical and archaeological research to provide a history of the Americas before (and shortly after) the arrival of Europeans. And it’s a legit history, in ways I didn’t realize were even lacking in my previous acquaintance with early American history...
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Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 11 years ago
text 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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,...
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 11 years ago
text Must Read History
This is the type of book that you read, and you actually learn from. The focus is on the societies in the Americas, in particular Meso-America, prior to the discovery or arrival of Europeans. There is quite a bit about the societies but also about why diseases affected Native Americans far differe...
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JasonKoivu
JasonKoivu rated it 11 years ago
text 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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...
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Cassandra Reads
Cassandra Reads rated it 11 years ago
text 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus [Charles C. Mann]
In some ways, I'm just really glad to be done with this book. I didn't have a plan for reading this one, so it took longer than it really should have taken. I'd never really considered how the early setterers viewed the Native Americans or how history viewed them later on. It makes no sense to me th...
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