Download A Macat Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 AudioBook Free
Environmental factors condition our history as much as - and sometimes more than - human being factors. That is the premise of Alfred W. Crosby's 1972 work The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Effects of 1492, a key text in environmental history. While early on scholars emphasized ethnic and scientific factors as determining the way our world developed, Crosby argues that nonhuman factors, like the exchange of plants, pets or animals, and microbes between your Old and New Worlds got more overall impact. "The most important changes brought on by the Columbian voyages were biological in aspect," he says. Crosby was main historians to look at the value of the get spread around of certain food crops and diseases in relation to the development of history, to show it was not simply political and social issues that counted. The Columbian Exchange introduces the theory that current human being societies are also the product of an wider group of biological human relationships, and have to be grasped in these contexts.
