The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (30th Anniversary Edition) by Alfred W. Crosby
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Overview: Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492 sparked the movement of organisms, both large and small, in both directions across the Atlantic. This Columbian exchange, between the Old World and the New, changed the history of our planet drastically and forever.The book The Columbian Exchange changed the field of history drastically and forever as well. It has become one of the foundational works in the burgeoning field of environmental history, and it remains one of the canonical texts for the study of world history. This 30th anniversary edition of The Columbian Exchange includes a new preface from the author, reflecting on the book and its creation, and a new foreword by J. R. McNeill that demonstrates how Crosby established a brand new perspective for understanding ecological and social events. As the foreword indicates, The Columbian Exchange remains a vital book, a small work that contains within the inspiration for future examinations into what happens when two peoples, separated by time and space, finally meet.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles by William Deverell, Greg Hise
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Overview: Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great “what-not-to-do” of twentieth-century city building. But there’s much more to LA’s story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences of that planning-the environmental history of urbanism–is one place to turn for the more complex lessons LA has to offer.

Working forward from ancient times and ancient ecologies to the very recent past, Land of Sunshine is a fascinating exploration of the environmental history of greater Los Angeles. Rather than rehearsing a litany of errors or insults against nature, rather than decrying the lost opportunities of “roads not taken,” these essays, by nineteen leading geologists, ecologists, and historians, instead consider the changing dynamics both of the city and of nature.
In the nineteenth century, for example, “density” was considered an evil, and reformers struggled mightily to move the working poor out to areas where better sanitation and flowers and parks “made life seem worth the living.”
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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Africa and the Second World War by David Killingray, Richard Rathbone
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Overview: To say that the Second World War was important is to make the last uncontroversial statement in African studies. Everyone knows that it was either the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end of European colonialism in Africa and that the huge global upheaval it unleashed had far-reaching effects upon politics, and economic and social life. The beginning of the war provides innumerable studies with a terminal date, just as 1945 has been a convenient opening for a similar number of influential works. But if this is so, it is remarkable that so little attention has been paid to the war both as a savage process and as a period in the history of Africa. Like the Great Depression and the influenza pandemic before it, it remains one of those sets of events and one of those eras that has been widely acknowledged to have been of immense significance and yet has attracted very little systematic study.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History

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