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1493 : [uncovering the new world Columbus created]

2011

Format:	Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording
Author:	Mann, Charles C.
Title:	1493 : [uncovering the new world Columbus created] / Charles C. Mann.
Edition:	Unabridged.
Publisher, Date:	New York, N.Y. : Books on Tape, ℗2011.
Description:	14 audio discs (17 hr., 47 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical audio file CD audio
Summary:	Charles Mann chronicles the Age of Exploration and its consequences. Here, he looks at how the European presence affected the Americas, China, and Africa.
Subjects:	Columbus, Christopher -- Influence. History, Modern. Economic history. Commerce -- History. Agriculture -- History. Ecology -- History. Industrial revolution. Slave trade -- History. America -- Discovery and exploration -- Economic aspects. America -- Discovery and exploration -- Environmental aspects.
Genre:	Audiobooks.
Other Author:	Dean, Robertson, narrator.
Other Title:	Fourteen ninety-three
Notes:	Compact discs. Subtitle from container. Duration: 17:47:00. Director: Cathy Thornburn. Read by Robertson Dean.
Contents:	In the Homogenocene. Two monuments -- Atlantic journeys. The tobacco coast ; Evil air -- Pacific journeys. Shiploads of money (Silk for silver, part one) -- Lovesick grass, foreign tubers, and jade rice (Silk for silver, part two) -- Europe in the world. The agro-industrial complex ; Black gold -- Africa in the world. Crazy soup ; Forest of fugitives -- Currents of life. In Bulalacao -- Appendixes. A, Fighting words ; B, Globalization in beta.
LCCN:	2011003408
ISBN:	9780307913784 0307913783 9780307913760 0307913767
Publisher Number:	RDH30791376A RHA 3191
Other Number:	710899596
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	320950
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	CD 909.4 Mann

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