two-year after christopher columbus arrival. the author reports on european voyages that followed the transportation of flora and fauna from americas to other parts of the road from which became known as the columbus exchange. this is a little over an hour. charles mann will tell you how his brilliant new book, trained to: uncovering the new world columbus created actually originated with a question about heirloom tomato plant developed in 18th century ukraine, which he encountered any school greenhouse. i m going to actually let him tell you that story himself. read his story in his book will make you think in any way about about so many things about food, diseases, people, trade in our offense for centuries ago set a time before events were today as the global network has become the subject of a serious intellectual battle. i don t think anyone here would disagree with that. charles mann is a great interdisciplinary thinker, scholar questionnaire. he synthesizes the late
actually originated with a question about an heirloom toe may toe plant tomato plant. i m going to let him tell you that story himself. but his story will make you think about so many things, about people, food, diseases, trade, and how a template for event was set as the global network has become the subject of a furious intellectual battle, and i don t think anyone here would disagree with that. charles mann, is a great scholar and questioner. he sint theses the latest research by archaeologists and historians to uncover the germ of today s fiercest political disputes, all the things that we are roiling and talking about and you see in the op-ed pages. and he always finds a great way to tell the story. and in his new book, you ll find him an authorrive and engaging guide. you may already have read charles mann s other sweeping portrait of american history, the mind-rocking 1491 which won the national academy s communication award for best book of the year. or you may ha
of course they are military types. they escape. especially in areas where they, landscape was similar to them. if you re from a tropical part and you re sent to brazil, this is a landscape you understand. the way the portuguese don t. it s highly possible for you to get out there, for you to establish independent communities that exist for hundreds of years. it s more difficult up here because winter, which is much more potent way of keeping you in than any kind of english guy. you re a historian. you must answer this question for me. even if it s not a good answer. then you ve given me like. how is that we can lose hold of such a vast history? is this amnesia on the part of society? how is it we can stand it when we see these charts of american demographic charts, these are separate islands? how is it we can forget so much about the history of the americas? i m glad you said i could give a bad answer. it s a strange thing. you sort of kn
food, diseases, people, trade, and how events four new jersey ago set a temp plat for events as the global network has become the subject of a furious intellectual battle. and i don t think anyone would disagree with that. charles mann good is great thinker and researcher. he uncovers the germ of today s fearest political disputes, all the things we re royleing and talking about and you see in the op-ed pages, immigration to culture wars, and he finds a great way to tell the story, and in his new book, you ll find hem an engaging guy. you may have read his other sweeping portrait of american history, the mind rocking of 1491. revelations of the americas before columbus, which won the communication award for best book of the area. or you may have read him in half a dozen magazines like the atlantic, or wired, or seen the two episodes he wrote of law & order. in a conversation with charles mann we have got separate interdisciplinary thicker and writer, richard rodriguez. richar