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Title Seeds of change : a quincentennial commemoration / edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis
Published Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1991]
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991
©1991
©1991

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Description 277 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Contents Seeds of change / Herman J. Viola -- The demise of the Fifth Sun / Jane MacLaren Walsh and Yoko Sugiura -- American food crops in the Old World / William H. McNeill -- New World, vineyard to the Old / Henry Hobhouse -- Metamorphosis of the Americas / Alfred W. Crosby -- Ranching in the New World / Deb Bennett and Robert S. Hoffmann -- Pleasure, profit, and satiation / Sidney W. Mintz -- Antigua slaves and their struggle to survive / David Barry Gaspar -- Galways plantation, Montserrat / Lydia M. Pulsipher -- Savoring Africa in the New World / Robert L. Hall -- Hispanic American heritage / Joseph P. Sanchez -- An American Indian perspective / George P. Horse Capture -- Health and disease in the pre-Columbian world / John W. Verano and Douglas H. Ubelaker -- Three faces of Eden / Stanwyn G. Shetler -- Nature's future / Steven King and Liliana Campos Dudley
Summary Details the processes of encounter and exchange between Europe and the cultures of the Americas and Africa since their discovery by Europeans five hundred years ago
Analysis America Discovery and exploration Spanish Exhibitions
America History To 1810 Exhibitions
Columbus, Christopher Influence Exhibitions
Indians of North America First contact with Europeans Exhibitions
Notes "This book reflects some of the inquiry that supports the Columbus Quincentenary exhibition "Seeds of change" " -- P.9
Cover subtitle: Five hundred years since Columbus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-268) and index
Notes This book purchased by ANCLAS from Dr. Barry Carr, Historian. ANU
Subject Columbus, Christopher -- Influence -- Exhibitions.
Columbus, Christopher, 1451-1506 -- Influence -- Exhibitions.
Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Exhibitions.
Indians, North American.
SUBJECT Americas -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004256 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001275
Americas -- History -- To 1810 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004264 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001275
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Margolis, Carolyn.
Viola, Herman J.
Australian National University. Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies. Barry Carr collection
LC no. 90010289
ISBN 1560980354
1560980362
9781560980353
9781560980360