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UNINA9910624318903321 |
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Autore |
Hancock James F. |
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Titolo |
World Agriculture Before and After 1492 : Legacy of the Columbian Exchange / / by James F Hancock |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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ISBN |
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9783031155239 |
9783031155222 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2022.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (156 pages) |
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Collana |
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Biomedical and Life Sciences Series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Agriculture |
Plant ecology |
Plants - Evolution |
Science - History |
Plant Ecology |
Plant Evolution |
History of Science |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Origins Of World Crops And Livestock -- Evolution Of European Agriculture -- Agriculture In The Americas Before The European Conquest -- Spanish Conquest And Colonization Of The Americas -- Advance Of Spanish Agriculture In Colonial America -- Portugal And The South Atlantic Exchange -- The Two Worlds Become One -- Dispersal Of New World Crops Into The Old World -- Five Hundred Years After The Great Encounter -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The year 2022 is the 50th anniversary of Alfred Crosby’s celebrated book - The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. In the book, Crosby was the first to discuss the impact that the Spanish and Portuguese colonial period had on world agriculture and human culture. How the crops of the world became homogenized, and how an indigenous culture was destroyed by disease after Columbus landed. His landmark study broke new ground in its broad |
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