Joshua Specht, Etienne Stockland

An Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange

Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Crosbyâ s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much asâ and sometimes more thanâ human factors.

Produktdetails

• The Macat Library
• Verlag: Macat International Limited
• Seitenzahl: 86
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 104g
• ISBN-13: 9781912127443
• ISBN-10: 191212744X
• Artikelnr.: 48847282

Autorenporträt

Dr Joshua Specht completed his PhD in History at Harvard in 2014, working on the Environmental History of the cattle trade in nineteenth-century America. He is currently a lecturer in History at Monash University. Etienne Stockland is researching a PhD in Environmental History at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Ways in to the Text Who was Alfred W. Crosby? What does The Columbian
Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Say? Why does The
Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Matter?
Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context
Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's
Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary
Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3:
Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module
11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms
People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited