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Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 4 11 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 08:44:55 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:23:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6141363 173140 39020 1400032059 9781400032051 559 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640m/39020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640s/39020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 2 9 false Fri Sep 28 06:23:16 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 07:18:43 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 28 06:22:57 -0700 2007
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Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 3 4 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 20:36:22 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 06:50:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4569724 274193 39020 1400032059 9781400032051 559 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640m/39020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640s/39020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 5 4 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 21:41:05 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 17:16:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 42789948 1874239 329260 140004006X 9781400040063 28 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173799786m/329260.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173799786s/329260.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/329260.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.21 76 1491 is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans were (and still are) raised on describe the continents before Columbus as a vast, underused territory, sparsely populated by primitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advanced technologies of the Europeans. For decades, though, among the archaeologists, anthropologists, paleolinguists, and others whose discoveries Charles C. Mann brings together in 1491, different stories have been emerging. Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier; the Americas were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony with nature, radically engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention.

Mann is well aware that much of the history he relates is necessarily speculative, the product of pot-shard interpretation and precise scientific measurements that often end up being radically revised in later decades. But the most compelling of his eye-opening revisionist stories are among the best-founded: the stories of early American-European contact. To many of those who were there, the earliest encounters felt more like a meeting of equals than one of natural domination. And those who came later and found an emptied landscape that seemed ripe for the taking, Mann argues convincingly, encountered not the natural and unchanging state of the native American, but the evidence of a sudden calamity: the ravages of what was likely the greatest epidemic in human history, the smallpox and other diseases introduced inadvertently by Europeans to a population without immunity, which swept through the Americas faster than the explorers who brought it, and left behind for their discovery a land that held only a shadow of the thriving cultures that it had sustained for centuries before. --Tom Nissley

<p align="center"> <span class="h1">A 1491 Timeline

<table cellpadding="4" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Europe and Asia

<td width="10%">Dates <td width="70%">The Americas

<td width="10%">25000-35000 B.C. <td width="70%">Time of paleo-Indian migration to Americas from Siberia, according to genetic evidence. Groups likely traveled across the Pacific in boats.

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Wheat and barley grown from wild ancestors in Sumer.

<td width="10%">5000 <td width="70%">In what many scientists regard as humankind's first and greatest feat of genetic engineering, Indians in southern Mexico systematically breed maize (corn) from dissimilar ancestor species.

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">First cities established in Sumer.

<td width="10%">3000 <td width="70%">The Americas' first urban complex, in coastal Peru, of at least 30 closely packed cities, each centered around large pyramid-like structures

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Great Pyramid at Giza

<td width="10%">32 <td width="70%">First clear evidence of Olmec use of zero--an invention, widely described as the most important mathematical discovery ever made, which did not occur in Eurasia until about 600 A.D., in India (zero was not introduced to Europe until the 1200s and not widely used until the 1700s)

<td width="10%">800-840 A.D. <td width="70%">Sudden collapse of most central Maya cities in the face of severe drought and lengthy war

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Vikings briefly establish first European settlements in North America.

<td width="10%">1000 <td width="70%"><table cellpadding="0" align="left" width="255" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td align="left"> <img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/books/a-plus/cahokia-250.jpg" align="top"> <tr> <td align="left"> <span class="tiny">Reconstruction of Cahokia, c. 1250 A.D.* Abrupt rise of Cahokia, near modern St. Louis, the largest city north of the Rio Grande. Population estimates vary from at least 15,000 to 100,000. <p> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Black Death devastates Europe.<p> <td width="10%">1347-1351 <td width="70%"> <p> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%"><p> <td width="10%">1398 <td width="70%">Birth of Tlacaélel, the brilliant Mexican strategist behind the Triple Alliance (also known as the Aztec empire), which within decades controls central Mexico, then the most densely settled place on Earth. <p> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">The Encounter: Columbus sails from Europe to the Caribbean.<p> <td width="10%">1492 <td width="70%">The Encounter: Columbus sails from Europe to the Caribbean. <p> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Syphilis apparently brought to Europe by Columbus's returning crew.<p> <td width="10%">1493 <td width="70%"> <p> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Ferdinand Magellan departs from Spain on around-the-world voyage.<p> <td width="10%">1519 <td width="70%"><table cellpadding="0" align="left" width="255" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td align="left"> <img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/books/a-plus/disease-250.jpg" align="top"> <tr> <td align="left"> <span class="tiny">Sixteenth-century Mexica drawing of the effects of smallpox** Cortes driven from Tenochtitlán, capital of the Triple Alliance, and then gains victory as smallpox, a European disease never before seen in the Americas, kills at least one of three in the empire. <p> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%"><p> <td width="10%">1525-1533 <td width="70%">The smallpox epidemic sweeps into Peru, killing as much as half the population of the Inka empire and opening the door to conquest by Spanish forces led by Pizarro. <p> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%"><p> <td width="10%">1617 <td width="70%">Huge areas of New England nearly depopulated by epidemic brought by shipwrecked French sailors. <p> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">English Pilgrims arrive at Patuxet, an Indian village emptied by disease, and survive on stored Indian food, renaming the village Plymouth.<p> <td width="10%">1620 <td width="70%"> <tr> <table cellpadding="4" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4"> <tr> <td align="left" width="100%"> <span class="tiny">*Courtesy Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Ill., painting by Michael Hampshire. **Courtesy Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, N.M. (Bernardino de Sahagún, <I>Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España, 1547-77).

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Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 1 5 false Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 12:58:21 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 08:07:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 14384542 867938 39020 1400032059 9781400032051 559 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640m/39020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640s/39020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 5 4 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 13:44:15 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 15:40:06 -0800 2008
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<p align="center"> <span class="h1">A 1491 Timeline

<table cellpadding="4" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Europe and Asia

<td width="10%">Dates <td width="70%">The Americas

<td width="10%">25000-35000 B.C. <td width="70%">Time of paleo-Indian migration to Americas from Siberia, according to genetic evidence. Groups likely traveled across the Pacific in boats.

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Wheat and barley grown from wild ancestors in Sumer.

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">First cities established in Sumer.

<td width="10%">3000 <td width="70%">The Americas' first urban complex, in coastal Peru, of at least 30 closely packed cities, each centered around large pyramid-like structures

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Great Pyramid at Giza

<td width="10%">800-840 A.D. <td width="70%">Sudden collapse of most central Maya cities in the face of severe drought and lengthy war

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Vikings briefly establish first European settlements in North America.

]]> 2005 5 3 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 06 10:39:41 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 23:47:29 -0800 2009 Guns, Germs, and Steel). But it is exceptionally researched and fantastic.

Mann describes North and South America in a way that traditional textbooks and contemporary rh...more...]]> 21269149 646492 2865817 5 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209592359m/2865817.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1209592359s/2865817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2865817.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.00 18 2005 2 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 29 13:58:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 13:58:00 -0700 2008
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Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 3 2 false Wed Feb 27 07:02:29 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 07:20:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 9453 629 39020 1400032059 9781400032051 559 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640m/39020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640s/39020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 4 2 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jan 19 10:34:11 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 19 13:09:35 -0800 2007 more...]]> 10330714 305220 329260 140004006X 9781400040063 28 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173799786m/329260.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173799786s/329260.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/329260.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309 1491 is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans were (and still are) raised on describe the continents before Columbus as a vast, underused territory, sparsely populated by primitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advanced technologies of the Europeans. For decades, though, among the archaeologists, anthropologists, paleolinguists, and others whose discoveries Charles C. Mann brings together in 1491, different stories have been emerging. Among the revelations: the first Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even 20 thousand years earlier; the Americas were a far more urban, more populated, and more technologically advanced region than generally assumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony with nature, radically engineered the landscape across the continents, to the point that even "timeless" natural features like the Amazon rainforest can be seen as products of human intervention.

<p align="center"> <span class="h1">A 1491 Timeline

<table cellpadding="4" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Europe and Asia

<td width="10%">Dates <td width="70%">The Americas

<td width="10%">25000-35000 B.C. <td width="70%">Time of paleo-Indian migration to Americas from Siberia, according to genetic evidence. Groups likely traveled across the Pacific in boats.

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Wheat and barley grown from wild ancestors in Sumer.

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">First cities established in Sumer.

<td width="10%">3000 <td width="70%">The Americas' first urban complex, in coastal Peru, of at least 30 closely packed cities, each centered around large pyramid-like structures

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Great Pyramid at Giza

<td width="10%">800-840 A.D. <td width="70%">Sudden collapse of most central Maya cities in the face of severe drought and lengthy war

<tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="20%">Vikings briefly establish first European settlements in North America.

]]> 2005 5 2 false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 12 12:19:04 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 11 16:29:40 -0700 2008
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Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 3 1 false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 15:02:20 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 15:03:50 -0800 2009 1
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Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 4 1 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 06:03:06 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 06:19:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 33175952 1184083 39020 1400032059 9781400032051 559 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640m/39020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640s/39020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 5 1 false Thu Sep 18 10:38:47 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 10:39:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 28163997 889092 39020 1400032059 9781400032051 559 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640m/39020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640s/39020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 5 1 false Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 09:57:22 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 10:26:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 28145135 541343 39020 1400032059 9781400032051 559 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640m/39020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640s/39020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 4 1 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 05:28:02 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 05:28:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 25911250 155693 39020 1400032059 9781400032051 559 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640m/39020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640s/39020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 4 1 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 08:58:05 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 13 11:59:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 25657654 1276600 39020 1400032059 9781400032051 559 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640m/39020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640s/39020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 4 1 false Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 08:12:16 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 19:44:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 25147862 184521 39020 1400032059 9781400032051 559 <![CDATA[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640m/39020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169231640s/39020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_Columbus 4.05 2309
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.]]> 2005 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jun 22 16:41:11 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 21 09:20:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1234046