In the Wake of Columbus: The Impact of the New World on Europe, 1492-1650

by Roger Schlesinger

Book Overview

500 year ago, Christopher Columbus "discovered" the Americas" that was to change radically the lives of all indigenous Americans and shape their subsequent histories. In the second edition, the author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882959174
• ISBN13: 9780882959177
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Harlan Davidson
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Great and Interesting Book

I read "In the Wake of Columbus" in a class Arthur Schlesinger was teaching at Washington State University a few years ago. This book is absolutely mindblowing; it is rare to hear anything about the effect which discovering America had on Europe...and it was a gigantic one. This book gives a concise history of the cultural, economic, biological, and political changes associated with the discovery of America. Did you know syphilis most likely came from America? The the gold coming in from the Americas causes the Spanish economy to collapse due to inflation three times in one hundred years? This book is an interesting and well written history on a subject which we often don't think about.

Great book

this book describe the european renaissance and the new land america.. so we can know how effect to the new land from eropean renaissance.