A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491 . Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how 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. In this history, Mann uncovers the germ of today's fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars. In 1493 , Mann has again given readers an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination.

查爾斯·曼恩是《大西洋月刊》《科學》和《連綫》雜誌的撰稿人。他也為《財富》雜誌、《紐約時報》《史密森尼》《名利場》《華盛頓郵報》供過稿，曾三次進入美國國傢雜誌奬決賽的作者，被美國律師協會、美國物理研究會、阿爾弗雷德·P·斯隆基金會和蘭南基金會授予過與寫作相關的奬項。他的著作《1491》贏得瞭美國國傢學院傳播奬的年度最佳圖書奬。