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1491

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(5)

Really interesting and readable book covering the history of the Americas
The author vividly compels us to re-examine how we teach the ancient history of the Americas and how we live with the environmental consequences of colonization.

Mr.Mann points out that Europeans and white Americans have "implicitly depicted Indians as people who never changed their environment from its original wild state. Because history is change, they were people without history.
He navigates adroitly through the controversies. He approaches each in the best scientific tradition, carefully sifting the evidence, never jumping to hasty conclusions, giving everyone a fair hearing - the experts and the amateurs; the accounts of the Indians and their conquerors.
The idea that Columbus "discovered" America has always been Eurocentric, exclusionary and just plain wrong. If nothing else, it ignored the first people to settle on this continent. Until now, there hasn't been a entertaining and readable book written for everyone which demonstrates the diverse groups which may have "discovered" this continent. This book gives us additional background on the first settlers, and shows us how inaccurate the idea that Columbus "discovered" the Americas really is.



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