图书标签: 历史 美国史 美国 社会学 2005
发表于2024-11-09
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In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
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. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.
Charles C. Mann is the author of 1493, a New York Times best-seller, and 1491, which won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Keck award for the best book of the year. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many newspapers and magazines here and abroad, including National Geographic, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post. In addition to 1491 and 1493, he is the co-author of five other books, one of which is a young person's version of 1491 called Before Columbus. His website is www.charlesmann.org.
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评分感谢中信出版社让我有机会翻译《1491》。感谢此书的策划编辑覃田甜、责任编辑王泱、责任编辑杜梁、营销编辑李娆等人的工作。 很多人或许认为,此书与我们、与中国、与当前的时代和它面临的问题没有多少相关性。我认为恰恰相反。就此,我在翻译和修改的漫长过程中做了很多笔记...
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评分从正月开始,断断续续地花了一个月时间才把这本大部头啃完。 坦言之,本书并不太符合我的心理预期。我期待看到的是古老的印加帝国,危地马拉的金字塔,古老的文明和总被误解却真实存在过的高等文明,是当年在川大望江图书馆里,热血沸腾的读到的《拉丁美洲笔记》那样克制却激...
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