BOOK

1493 for young people : from Columbus's voyage to globalization

Mann, Charles C., author, Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951- author

2016

Overview

Examines the arc \"of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled silver mountain of sixteenth-century Bolivia fund economic development in the flood-prone plains of rural China and the wars of the Spanish Empire? Here is the story of how sometimes the greatest leaps also posed the greatest threats to human advancement\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Subject: Columbus, Christopher Influence Juvenile literature. / Columbus, Christopher. / History, Modern Juvenile literature. / Economic history Juvenile literature. / Commerce History Juvenile literature. / Agriculture History Juvenile literature. / Ecology History Juvenile literature. / Industrial revolution Juvenile literature. / Slave trade History Juvenile literature. / Globalization Juvenile literature. / History, Modern. / Economic history. / Commerce History. / Agriculture History. / Ecology History. / Industrial revolution. / Slave trade History. / Globalization. / JUVENILE NONFICTION - History - Central & South America. / JUVENILE NONFICTION - History - Exploration & Discovery. / JUVENILE NONFICTION - Social Science - Customs, Traditions, Anthropology. / America Discovery and exploration Economic aspects Juvenile literature. / America Discovery and exploration Environmental aspects Juvenile literature. / America Discovery and exploration.
• ISBN: 9781609806309, 1609806301, 9781609806637

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D228.M35 2016	1	CHILDBOOK	CHILDREN