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Lacking in vision and organization. This is adorably naive. It also becomes nauseating. The details quickly become tedious and overbearing.
Mann’s discussion of spanish colonization perhaps best illustrates his simplified, neoliberal understanding of the process of globalization. In academia, this idea goes back at least forty years and is known as the columbian exchange.
For much of 1493, mann’s rigid ideology subtly guides his reading of history, but there are moments where this becomes more explicit. The problem with the audio version is that the professional actor who reads it has no emotional involvement.
Even if this happy image of the invisible hand at work were true, there are still losers in this economic model, often the laborers who produce these goods. Mann’s ideological blinders lead him to make plenty of bizarre or simply factually incorrect s... Read More
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This book talks about the global changes that occurred because of the interaction with the americas
A good accounting of how indian societies african societies and european societies were impacted by the encounter of columbus w... Read More
The world we live in today was profoundly shaped by the exchanges that followed the arrival of europeans in the americas and ve... Read More
– to provide them with the same level of comfort education healthcare etc
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Recommended for people with interests on how finding the americas changed the rest of the world
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It is a rather broad subject though and it shows itself in the book a meandering story that gives more of an overview then depth
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The opportunities for cooperation between european and asian people and for cooperation between all major ethnic groups were quite significant then but those opportunities passed and the pattern was that one major power would assimilate smaller and less technological ones
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Today there may be events and trends that are neocolonial
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I dont feel that europeans should feel any guilt for what they did but should feel quilt for who they are that includes my ancestors too
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They came here to get rich and ravage the place for their benefit with no regard for the people here
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Evidently the people here felt that life was more important than being rich while those that make it so languish in poverty
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Requires reexamination of the superficial story told in undergraduate history texts in the same way that plate tectonics reshaped how we think about geography
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Not necessary to read 1491 first
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