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Author Mann, Charles C.

Title 1491 [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] new revelations of the Americas before Columbus / Charles C. Mann.

Edition Second edition.
Publication Info. New York : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.
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Description 1 online resource
Note Electronic book.
Summary 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. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man's first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. New York Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2006 Available via World Wide Web.
Subject Indians -- Origin.
Indians -- History.
Indians -- Antiquities.
America -- Antiquities.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc.
Added Title Fourteen ninety one
ISBN 9780307278180 (electronic bk.)
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