1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which had running water, immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city, to the Mexican corn that was so carefully created in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man?s first feat of genetic engineering, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-07-2009; What we were never taught in American History; Most interesting!! Reminescient of McNeill's "Plagues and Peoples".Puts a whole new twist on the dead white european's contribution to the progress and enlightenment of the western hemisphere.; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-07-2009; Broad tale of the inhabitants of the Americas; In 1491, the author provides a succinct summary of many of the different theories of the "Indian" history in pre-Columbian America. He often presents a scenario, followed with "or maybe it never happened", and then follows it up with...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-26-2009; Read Brading instead; I recommend The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots and the Liberal State 1492-1867 by D.A. Brading.It appears quite a bit more scholarly than 1491. From Page 103 of Brading:To insist on the peremptory, even violent...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-08-2009; Whoop! Whoop! Stuff You Should Know.; I heard about this book from the podcast "stuff you should know" and I'm glad I took the leap and got it. I am not what you would consider a history buff, but I have to say I couldn't put this book down. You can't help but think of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-07-2009; What we were never taught in American History; Most interesting!! Reminescient of McNeill's "Plagues and Peoples".Puts a whole new twist on the dead white european's contribution to the progress and enlightenment of the western hemisphere.; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-15-2009; The Revisionist Debate; Mann, a journalist, presents here a summary of the views of the current crop of archaeologists, ethnographers, geographers, and epigraphers regarding the Americas before the arrival of Columbus. Both the extreme negative reviewers and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-26-2009; Read Brading instead; I recommend The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots and the Liberal State 1492-1867 by D.A. Brading.It appears quite a bit more scholarly than 1491. From Page 103 of Brading:To insist on the peremptory, even violent...; read full review | report as inappropriate