MARC Record from marc_nuls

LEADER: 02806cam 22003974a 4500
001 9919694240001661
005 20161129130809.0
008 040930s2005 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004061547
020 $a140004006X (alk. paper)
024 30 $a9781400040063
035 $a(CSdNU)u253392-01national_inst
035 $a(OCoLC)56632601
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dOCLCQ$dBAKER$dC#P$dBUR$dYBM
042 $apcc
043 $an------$as------
049 $aCNUM
050 00 $aE61$b.M266 2005
082 00 $a970.01/1$222
100 1 $aMann, Charles C.
245 10 $a1491 :$bnew revelations of the Americas before Columbus /$cCharles C. Mann.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2005.
300 $axii, 465 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [403]-449) and index.
505 0 $aHolmberg's mistake -- A view from above -- 1: Numbers from nowhere? -- Why Billington survived -- In the land of four quarters -- Frequently asked questions -- 2: Very old bones -- Pleistocene wars -- Cotton (or anchovies) and maize (tales of two civilizations, part I) -- Writing, wheels, and bucket brigades (tales of two civilizations, part II) -- 3: Landscape with figures -- Made in America -- Amazonia -- The artificial wilderness -- The great law of peace.
520 $aMann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlan, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets. The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids. Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings. Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process that the journal Science recently described as "man's first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering."--From publisher description.
650 0 $aIndians$xOrigin.
650 0 $aIndians$xHistory.
650 0 $aIndians$xAntiquities.
651 0 $aAmerica$xAntiquities.
938 $aBaker & Taylor$bBKTY$c30.00$d22.50$i140004006X$n0006131057$sactive
949 $aE 61 .M266 2005$i31786102023733
994 $a92$bCNU
999 $aE 61 .M266 2005$wLC$c1$i31786102023733$d10/1/2010$lCIRCSTACKS$mNULS $q1$rY$sY$tBOOK$u9/16/2005
999 $aE 61 .M266 2005$wLC$c2$i31786102859821$lYOUNGADULT$mNULS$rY$sY$tBOOK $u3/12/2012