An Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492...

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Joshua Specht Etienne Stockland

An Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange

Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

Joshua Specht, Etienne Stockland

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English

Macat International Limited
04 July 2017

History; Philosophy; Psychological theory & schools of thought; Study & learning skills: general; Political science & theory

Series: The Macat Library

One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines. This is not a charge that can be laid at the door of Alfred Crosby. His book The Columbian Exchange not only incorporates the results of wide reading in the hard sciences, anthropology and geography, but also stands as one of the foundation stones of the study of environmental history.

In this sense, Crosby's defining work is undoubtedly a fine example of the critical thinking skill of creativity; it comes up with new connections that explain the European success in colonizing the New World more as the product of biological catastrophe (in the shape of the introduction of new diseases) than of the actions of men, and posits that the most important consequences were not political – the establishment of new empires – but cultural and culinary; the population of China tripled, for example, as the result of the introduction of new world crops. Few new hypotheses have proved as stimulating or influential.

By: Joshua Specht, Etienne Stockland
Imprint: Macat International Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 102g
ISBN: 9781912127443
ISBN 10: 191212744X
Series: The Macat Library
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 04 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.