The Columbian Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange

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Shaping America. Lesson 2, Worlds transformed. Part 2

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Italy and the Potato. by Gentilcore, David

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Key to the New World : a history of early colonial Cuba by Martínez-Fernández, Luis, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Geography and the shaping of early colonial Cuba -- Indigenous inhabitants -- First encounters, inventing America, and the Columbian Exchange -- The manufacturing of Cuba: conquests, demographic collapses, and government institutions -- The emergence of Creole society -- The Cuban ajiaco: transculturation and transgression -- The cockpit of Europe -- Deceivingly sweet: sugar, slavery, and resistance.…”
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Food, politics, and society : social theory and the modern food system by Colás, Alejandro, Edwards, Jason, 1971 October 3-, Levi, Jane, Zubaida, Sami, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : food, drink and modern social theory -- The natural and the social : the agricultural revolution -- Exchange : the Columbian Exchange and mercantile empires -- Culture : ritual, prohibition and taboo -- Industrialization : technology, rationality and urbanization -- The public sphere : eating and drinking in public -- The modern state : alcohol, alcoholism and biopolitics -- Identity : nationalism, ethnicity and religion -- Distinction : social difference, taste, and the civilizing process -- Political economy : the global food system -- The self : food choices and public health -- Consumption : media, the domestic economy and celebrity chefs.…”
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In praise of poison ivy : the secret virtues, astonishing history, and dangerous lore of the world's most hated plant by Sanchez, Anita, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The poysoned weede -- A collection of rarities -- Bartram's boxes -- Loathsome harlotry -- The biggest book -- Strong medicine -- Royal color -- A Virginia native -- The vine lifestyle -- The Columbian exchange -- What do animals eat? -- Bird candy -- Preparing for doomsday -- Holding on to the land -- There's gold in them there hills : Poison oak -- The devil you know -- No holds barred -- The future of poison ivy -- Epilogue : To feed a mockingbird -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix : How to avoid, heal, obliterate, and coexist with poison ivy.…”
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Food and health in early modern Europe : diet, medicine and society, 1450-1800 by Gentilcore, David

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Healthy Food: Renaissance Dietetics, c.1450-c.1650 -- 2 Healthy Food: The Fall and Rise of Dietetics, c.1650-c.1800 -- 3 Rich Food, Poor Food: Diet, Physiology and Social Rank -- 4 Regional Food: Nature and Nation in Europe -- 5 Holy Food: Spiritual and Bodily Health -- 6 Vegetable Food: The Vegetarian Option -- 7 New World Food: The Columbian Exchange and Its European Impact -- 8 Liquid Food: Drinking for Health -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world by Richards, John F.

Table of Contents: “…The Global Context -- The Early Modern World -- Climate and Early Modern World Environmental History -- Eurasia and Africa -- Pioneer Settlement on Taiwan -- Internal Frontiers and Intensified Land Use in China -- Ecological Strategies in Tokugawa Japan -- Landscape Change and Energy Transformation in the British Isles -- Frontier Settlement in Russia -- Wildlife and Livestock in South Africa -- The Americas -- The Columbian Exchange: The West Indies -- Ranching, Mining, and Settlement Frontiers in Colonial Mexico -- Sugar and Cattle in Portuguese Brazil -- Landscapes of Sugar in the Antilles -- The World Hunt -- Furs and Deerskins in Eastern North America -- The Hunt for Furs in Siberia -- Cod and the New World Fisheries -- Whales and Walruses in the Northern Oceans -- Conclusion.…”
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Stone Artefact Production and Exchange among the Lesser Antilles. by Knippenberg, Sebastiaan

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Capitalist pigs : pigs, pork, and power in America by Anderson, J. L. (Joseph Leslie), 1966-

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Times Are Altered with Us American Indians from First Contact to the New Republic. by Carpenter, Roger M.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- "Times Are Altered with Us": American Indians from First Contact to the New Republic -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 1492 and Before -- Before Europeans -- Invasions of America -- Rewriting "History" -- The Bering Strait Theory -- Culture Areas -- The Development of Maize -- The Southwest -- The Eastern Woodlands -- Native American Population before 1492 -- Native Americans and Old World Diseases -- The Columbian Exchange -- Chapter 2 Encountering the Spanish -- Pánfilo de Narváez -- Cabeza de Vaca…”
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The Biohistory of Florida. by Zettler, Francis William

Table of Contents: “…Florida After Europeans and Africans ArrivedImplications of the Columbian Exchange; Economic Incentives behind the Voyages of Discovery; Malaria and the West African Slaves; Europeans Arrive in Florida; European Incursions into Indian Territory; Spanish Mission Settlements and the Apalachicolas and Timucuans; Rice, Slaves, and the Anglo-Spanish Struggle for Florida; William Bartram's Descriptions of North Florida; Florida Becomes a Part of the United States; The Patriot War; The Onset of the Seminole Indian Wars; The Anglo-Appalachian Heritage of Florida's White Settlers.…”
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The Routledge handbook to the history and society of the Americas

Table of Contents: “…The bigger picture / Josef Raab and Stefan Rinke -- America / Stefan Rinke -- Atlantic / Ernesto Mercado Montero -- Colonial economies / Juan Marchena Fernández -- Colonial rule / Eduardo Cavieres -- Columbian exchange / Charles C. Mann -- Conquest and colonization / Christoph Strobel -- Enlightenment / Thomas O. …”
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Basics in human evolution

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