1493 for young people
Subtitle: from Columbus's voyage to globalization
By: Charles Mann ; adapted by Rebecca Stefoff
Contributors: Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951-
Series: For young people series
Publisher: Triangle Square
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609806309
Subjects: Modern History; Juvenile literature; Economic history; Commerce; History; Agriculture; Ecology; Industrial revolution; Slave trade; Discovery and exploration; Economic aspects; Environmental aspects; Influence; Globalization; JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Central & South America; JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Exploration & Discovery; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Science / Customs, Traditions, Anthropology
Other titles: Fourteen ninety-three for young people; Fourteen hundred ninety-three for young people
Description: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled silver mountain of sixteenth-century Bolivia fund economic development in the flood-prone plains of rural China and the wars of the Spanish Empire? Here is the story of how sometimes the greatest leaps also posed the greatest threats to human advancement.  Mann's language is as plainspoken and clear as it is provocative, his research and erudition vast, his conclusions ones that will stimulate the critical thinking of young people. 1493 for Young People provides tools for wrestling with the most pressing issues of today, and will empower young people as they struggle with a changing world"--