Support for Check It Out on Siouxland Public Media comes from Avery Brothers. Mann and other books about Native American history at the Sioux City Public Library. Readers will learn about the pre-contact occupants of the land that we live on today and come away with new questions about our history.Ĭheck out 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Topics Native Americans, Indians, Aztec, Columbus Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come. What happened to the Mound Builders of the Midwest differs from what happened to the communities of the Hudson River Valley or the Incas of the Andes mountains. 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus /. 1491 blends technology, history, anthropology, and archaeology to give us a glimpse of what the Western hemisphere looked like during this flourishing time of human civilization.įinally, 1491 does much to address the tough questions about what happened to many of these civilizations leading up to, and in the wake of, European colonization. Find out who invented corn and learn how the thundering herds of American bison came to dominate the Great Plains.
Mann shows readers how the Americas were cultivated and engineered to allow millions of inhabitants long before the arrival of Europeans in the area. This book fills in the blanks- spanning all the way from South American and Mesoamerican empires like the Inca and Aztec through to civilizations closer to home such as the ancient Mississipians who built huge cities near modern-day St. Mann-it’s the perfect book to read in November, which is Native American Heritage month.ġ491 chronicles the cultures and civilizations that populated the Americas prior to contact with colonial powers. Today, I am recommending 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. The book provides a huge hemispheric overview.” Read more.This is Michael Maxwell with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Mann shows that the Americas were not just an empty world waiting for Europeans to arrive and create a greater American nation – but a place where civilisation had risen and fallen, where there were great cities that contained probably as much population as Europe at the time, if not more, where corn agriculture had transformed large areas of the continent, and where Indian people had created changes in the land that left their imprint on the environment. He goes into a great deal of detail and from that a reader gets a very different picture, not just of the Americas in 1491, but also the whole world in 1491. He pulls together a lot of the new research over the last generation in one place and provides the reader with a helicopter overview of the American hemisphere on the eve of contact. “Charles Mann’s 1491 is subtitled “New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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