5/11/2023 0 Comments 1492 book mann![]() Organisms from the separate hemispheres could now travel to, and prosper in, locations halfway around the world. Some biologists say it was the beginning of a new biological era: the Homogenocene, a mixing of new substances to create a uniform blend. ![]() Mann shows that globalization was not just economic and cultural, but was also, maybe even primarily, a biological phenomenon. Following Crosby’s lead, noted scientific journalist Mann, using the latest scholarship and his own trips to sites around the world, demonstrates the crucial importance of that exchange in 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, a follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. ![]() (It lasted for five years.) Thus began what historian Alfred W. Mann, began in December of 1492, when Christopher Columbus established what he hoped would be a permanent settlement in what is now the Dominican Republic. ![]()
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