TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crosby, Alfred W.
TI  - The Columbian exchange: biological and cultural consequences of 1492 
SN  - 0275980731
U1  - 614.497 Ja Cro 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Westport, Conn.
PB  - Praeger
KW  - Indians
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Medical geography
KW  - History
KW  - Biogeography
KW  - Communicable Diseases
KW  - history
KW  - Indians, North American
KW  - Plants, Edible
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-276) and index; The contrasts -- Conquistador y pestilencia -- Old World plants and animals in the New World -- The early history of syphilis : a reappraisal -- New World foods and Old World demography -- The Columbian exchange continues
N2  - Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that stressed a simple point - that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new preface from the author
ER  -