Contributions in American Studies The Columbian Exchange, (Hardcover)

from AlexTheHunn

This is a seminal work in the history of the effects of transatlantic contact. Crosby's work makes several of the same points as Diamond would present decades later.

from jcvogan1

An excellent introduction to the biological consequences, disease, agriculture and animal habitats, of the discovery of the New World.

from DinadansFriend

A Seminal book that opened the revival of exo-biology. There's a more recent work, "1493" by Charles C. Mann, that I'm hoping to get to soon. We have opened a Pandora's box of shared plants and animals ranging from Kudzu to the Dandelion to the rabbit and the starling. For good or ill, Pangaea is...

from Dan.Allosso

For environmental historians, The Columbian Exchange is one of those books that must be read. Although the book is now 42 years old, and contains some outdated information (for example, Crosby based much of his argument on blood types because DNA analysis wasn't yet available), the basic idea has...

from AlexTheHunn

This is a seminal work in the history of the effects of transatlantic contact. Crosby's work makes several of the same points as Diamond would present decades later.