1st Edition
An Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
Ways in to the text
Who was Alfred W. Crosby?
What does The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Say?
Why does The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Matter?
Section 1: Influences
Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context
Module 2: Academic Context
Module 3: The Problem
Module 4: The Author's Contribution
Section 2: Ideas
Module 5: Main Ideas
Module 6: Secondary Ideas
Module 7: Achievement
Module 8: Place in the Author's Work
Section 3: Impact
Module 9: The First Responses
Module 10: The Evolving Debate
Module 11: Impact and Influence Today
Module 12: Where Next?
Glossary of Terms
People Mentioned in the Text
Works Cited
Biography
Dr Joshua Specht completed his PhD in History at Harvard in 2014, working on the Environmental History of the cattle trade in nineteenth-century America. He is currently a lecturer in History at Monash University.
Etienne Stockland is researching a PhD in Environmental History at Columbia University.
