{"product_id":"an-analysis-of-alfred-w-crosbys-the-columbian-exchange-biological-and-cultural-consequences-of-1492-paperback","title":"An Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's the Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Specht\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEtienne Stockland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines. This is not a charge that can be laid at the door of Alfred Crosby. His book \u003cem\u003eThe Columbian Exchange\u003c\/em\u003e not only incorporates the results of wide reading in the hard sciences, anthropology and geography, but also stands as one of the foundation stones of the study of environmental history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this sense, Crosby's defining work is undoubtedly a fine example of the critical thinking skill of creativity; it comes up with new connections that explain the European success in colonizing the New World more as the product of biological catastrophe (in the shape of the introduction of new diseases) than of the actions of men, and posits that the most important consequences were not political - the establishment of new empires - but cultural and culinary; the population of China tripled, for example, as the result of the introduction of new world crops. Few new hypotheses have proved as stimulating or influential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr Joshua Specht\u003c\/strong\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEtienne Stockland\u003c\/strong\u003e is researching a PhD in Environmental History at Columbia University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 83\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 04, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51796845461792,"sku":"9781912127443","price":14.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1b06df5751a14de383203696d231d77a.webp?v=1780768013","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/an-analysis-of-alfred-w-crosbys-the-columbian-exchange-biological-and-cultural-consequences-of-1492-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}