A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491.
The post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City—where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted—the center of the world.
Chapter 4. Shiploads of Money (Silk for Silver, Part One)
Chapter 5. Lovesick Grass, Foreign Tubers, and Jade Rice (Silk for Silver, Part Two)
Chapter 6. The Agro-Industrial Complex
Chapter 9. Forest of Fugitives
Appendix A: Globalization in Beta