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The Columbian Exchange Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
30th Anniversary Edition
Alfred W. Crosby
Forewords by J. R. McNeill and Otto von Mering
Book Code: C8073
ISBN: 0-275-98073-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98073-3
320 pages, figures
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2003
List Price: $81.95 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 5 1/2 X 8 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Crosby put ecological history on the map. His pioneering text has awakened, inspired, and challenged a generation of readers. It will, undoubtedly, become more relevant as the pace of global exchange increases.
    —The Sixteenth Century Journal     Winter 2005
  • The Columbian Exchange is a seminal, educational, and uniquely insightful contribution to Native American, Medical History, and World History Studies reference collections and reading lists.
    —Library Bookwatch     August 2003
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword (2002)
  • Preface (2002)
  • Foreword (1972)
  • Preface (1972)
  • The Contrasts
  • Conquistador y Pestilencia
  • Old World Plants and Animals in the New World
  • The Early History of Syphilis: A Reappraisal
  • New World Foods and Old World Demography
  • The Columbian Exchange Continues
  • Bibliography (1972)
  • Bibliography (2002)
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2003042858
LCC Class: E98
Dewey Class: 614
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