Working Bibliography: The Columbian Exchange,
or Doing 1492
Ashwani
Vasishth <ashwani@csun.edu> [Last update: May 7, 2000]
Armesto, Felipe Fernandez et al. (eds.).
1991. The Times Atlas of World Exploration: 3,000 Years of Exploring,
Explorers, and Mapmaking. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
Bentley, Jerry H. 1996. "Cross-cultural
Interaction and Periodization in World History," American Historical
Review, v101n3 (Jun 1996): 749-770. [For the historian, identifying
coherent periods of history is an elusive task. Bentley believes that efforts at
global peroidization might benefit if historians examined the participation of
the world's peoples in processes that transcend individual societies and
cultural regions.] {History Cultural relations}
Chomsky, Noam. 1993. Year 501: The
Conquest Continues. Boston: South End Press.
Crosby, Alfred. 1986.. Ecological
Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge
University Press.
De Bevoise, Ken. 1995. Agents of
Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Denevan, William M. (ed.). 1992. The
Native Population of the Americas in 1492. 2nd ed. Madison, WI: University
of Wisconsin Press.
Flint, Valerie I.J. 1992. The Imaginative
Landscape of Christopher Columbus. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Formisano, Luciano (ed.) 1992. Letters
from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America. (Trans. by David
Jacobson. ) New York: Marsilio. [Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512.]
Fuentes, Carlos. 1992 The Buried Mirror:
Reflections on Spain and the New World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Grafton, Anthony & April Shelford &
Nancy Siraisi. 1992. New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and
the Shock of Discovery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Belknap
Press.
Hennessy, Alistair. 1993. "Columbian
Exchange -- European Encounters with the New World by Anthony Pagden / New
Worlds and Ancient Texts by Anthony Grafton / The Armature of Conquest: Spanish
Accounts of the Discovery of America by Beatriz Pastor-Bodmer / and others,"
Times Literary Supplement, n4706 (Jun 11, 1993): 4-6. [Book
Review-Comparative.] {Nonfiction Exploration History Slavery Indigenous people}
Hern, Warren M. 1993. "Is Human Culture
Carcinogenic for Uncontrolled Population Growth and Ecological
Destruction?" Bioscience, v43n11 (Dec 1993): 768-773. [The process
by which human culture has brought about a malignant transformation in its
relationship with the ecosystem and some of the implications of this hypothesis
are discussed. Many people have described the human species as a kind of
planetary disease, comparing it to cancer.] {Environmental protection Ecology
Population Culture Research}
Maxwell, Kenneth. 1993. "!Adios
Columbus! -- The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World by
Carlos Fuentes / The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus by Valerie
I. J. Flint / Isabel the Queen by Peggy K. Liss / and others," New York
Review of Books, v40n3 (Jan 28, 1993): 38-45. {Nonfiction Biographies
Explorers Native Americans History}
Rogers, J. Daniel & Samuel M. Wilson
(eds.). 1993. Ethnohistory and Archaeology. Approaches to Postcontact Change
in the Americas. New York: Plenum..
Rouse, Irving. 1992. The Tainos: Rise and
Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus. New Haven: Yale University
Press.
Sauer, Carl Ortwin. 1966. The Early
Spanish Main. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Schlereth, Thomas J. 1992. "Columbia,
Columbus, and Columbianism," Journal of American History, v79n3
(Dec 1992): 937-968. [The process in the public American history of Christopher
Columbus becoming a national symbol, traced in the three chronological periods
of Columbus as a feminine classical deity--Columbia, as the masculine 15th
century European figure Columbus and as the major symbol of Columbianism, is
discussed.] {History Symbolism Heroism and heroes Explorers}
Subrahmanyan, Sanjay. ****. The
Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History.
Longman.
Turner, B. L. II. & Karl W. Butzer.
1992. "The Columbian Encounter and Land-Use Change," Environment,
v34n8 (Oct 1992): 16-20+. [The 1492 "Columbian encounter" set in
motion the most dramatic changes in land use and land cover induced by human
action up to that time. A historical narrative of the changes that took place
around the world is given.] {Explorers; Land use; History}
Verano , John W. & Douglas H. Ubelaker
(eds.). 1992. Disease and Demography in the Americas. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution Press.
Wallen, David. 1995. "Stumbling in
Marco Polo's footsteps," World Press Review, v42n1 (Jan 1995): 46.
[A library curator, Frances Wood, has completed a book that she says disproves
Marco Polo ever traveled to China. Wood believes the great explorer was merely
a literary con man used by romance writer Rusticello of Pisa.] {Explorers;
Books; Fraud; Travel}
Walvin, James. 1997. "A Taste of
Empire, 1600-1800," History Today, v47n1 (Jan 1997): 11-16. [Tea,
sugar and tobacco are habits that have become British by adoption. Walvin
traces how these staples hooked Britons into a fondness for the fruits of
imperial expansion.] {History Colonies and territories Commodities
International trade}
Winsberg, Morton D. 1992. "Five Hundred
Years After the Old World Discovered the New World: The Results of the Great
Agricultural Exchange," Social Studies, v83n5 (Sep 1992): 216-219.
[There are many animals and crops that were brought to the Western Hemisphere
from the Eastern Hemisphere. Historian Alfred Crosby has called this transfer
the "Columbian Exchange." The percentages of the world's crops and animal
populations in the Western Hemisphere in 1988 are listed in ascending order.]
{Animals Crops History Ratings and rankings}
Wood, Frances. ****. Did Marco Polo Go to
China? Westview Press.
Zinn, Howard. Undated. "Columbus and
Western Civilization," <http://www.zmag.org/columbus_western.html>