- 1991 edition. 278 pages
- Published by Smithsonian Institution
- Softcover. Just a little larger than A4 size book
- Very good condition. Minor cover wear, corner creases.
Five hundred years since Columbus. Indexed and illustrated.
Before 1492, sugarcane was unknown in the Americas and potatoes and corn were foreign to Europe. Neither smallpox or measles existed in the New World, nor did horses or cattle yet roam the plains and pampas of North and South America.
Bountifully illustrated, Seeds of Change traces Old and New World exchanges of sugar, maize, potatoes, wine, horses, and other common plants and animals as well as disease, over the course of five hundred years.
The seeds - introduced sometimes deliberately, sometimes unintentionally, by Christopher Columbus and those who followed him - took root across the globe, unleashing radical forces of cultural, biological, and environmental change.
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