In his new book, 1493, Charles Mann examines how colonisation of the Americas irrevocably altered our global ecology
GLOBALISATION is seen as a modern state of the world resulting from air travel and free trade. In 1493 Charles Mann shows this is not so – we have been interconnected for a very long time indeed.
Our perception of a local and pristine bygone world is in fact an imagined version of the past. Trade and exchange have linked Europe and the Americas since Europeans first sailed beyond their shores. In this wonderfully entertaining and subtly balanced book, Mann traces some of…
