vbid/9783031155239

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The year 2022 is the 50th anniversary of Alfred Crosby�s celebrated book -�The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. In the book,�Crosby was the first to discuss the impact that the Spanish and Portuguese colonial�period had on world agriculture and human culture. How the crops of the world�became homogenized, and how an indigenous culture was destroyed by disease after�Columbus landed. His landmark study broke new ground in its broad conceptualization�of the Atlantic exchange. Building on what Crosby so succinctly and brilliantly presented, the main goal of this�new work is to present the depth of information that has emerged since “The Columbian�Exchange” and to discuss more fully the development of crops and agriculture before and�after the Iberian contact. It follows the journey of crops and livestock in the Old and New Worlds and�end�s with their distribution in today�s world.Typham this is the title: World Agriculture Before and After 1492 Legacy of the Columbian Exchange