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: Sep-16-2009; Paradigm shift; This book covers what we should be teaching in our schools. Mann was horrified when his son was taught the same falsifications about Native America that he was as a child even though research had clearly shown the errors of the old...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-03-2009; 1491; Academic content but written well so it is understandable. The material covered is fascinating if you have a proclivity for archeology or anthropology and the earliest civilizations in the Americas. There have been many newly...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-29-2009; A must read.; This is the most facinating book I've ever read. A must read for anyone trying to understand the tremendous impact Europe had on the Americas and vice versa.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-21-2009; Hello? Wake up please.... OH yes!!!; I asked a Librarian friend to give me a good book on ancient Civ's, looking at the middle East with all those folks in the Med... he said "Hey I have this..." Unbelievable, I thought I had a decent handle of the "basic" history of North...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-16-2009; Paradigm shift; This book covers what we should be teaching in our schools. Mann was horrified when his son was taught the same falsifications about Native America that he was as a child even though research had clearly shown the errors of the old...; 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