The Columbian Exchange Biological And Cultural Consequences of 1492 By Alfred W Crosby

1972 trade paperback

Greenwood Press

Good condition

History

The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 is a seminal 1972 book by Alfred W. Crosby that popularized the concept of the Columbian Exchange, detailing the massive transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and culture between the Old World (Europe, Asia, Africa) and the New World (the Americas) after Columbus's voyages. Crosby argued that the most significant impacts were biological, fundamentally altering the planet's ecosystems and human history through the exchange of Old World diseases to the Americas and New World crops to the Old World, making it a foundational text in environmental history