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1.		The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Contributions in American Studies #2) from Greenwood Press (CT) Price: $65.15 Customer Review: A good account of the impact of European colonists on the New World biota. However, a more thorough and systematic account is given by the same author in his later book, Ecological Imperialism. Nevrtheless, some historical details given in this book are very important and beautifully described.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History) from Cambridge University Press Price: $20.83 Customer Review: This book is simply a must read for anyone doing Economic History, Development, or Economic Growth. It is one of the most influential books I have ever read. 'Ecological Imperialism' is just begging to make it's way on to more Grad Econ reading lists... It's almost scandalous that I've never been... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		The Columbian Exchange from Praeger Price: $30.24 Customer Review: This book is pretty interesting at parts, boring at others. I have learned a lot about the Colombian exchange.I needed it for my college history class. Its very detailed and confusing language is used at times.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 from Cambridge University Press Price: $9.96 Customer Review: Like another reviewer here, I'd say that unless you're looking for tables and statistics, you should get "The Great Influenza" by John Barry instead of this book. Also like that reviewer, this is not a knock on Crosby at all, but a tribute to Barry. Barry's book really is an incredible work by any... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy from W.W. Norton & Co. Price: $14.44 Customer Review: As a short (167pp) and enjoyable history of the place of energy through human history, I can recommend Children of the Sun, by Alfred w. Crosby. This chronological survey of the subject -- spanning from the introduction of fire (at the time when yoga tights were made from mammoth fur) through the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 from Cambridge University Press Price: $17.30 Customer Review: An important consideration when reading this book is to remember that it is the third part of a trilogy, with the first two parts being (1) "The Columbian Exchange" and (2) "Ecological Imperialism." Crosby's case studies in this book on the development of quantitative thinking in Europe are... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.	[no image]	The Columbian Voyages, the Columbian Exchange, and Their Historians (Essays on Global and Comparative History) from Amer Historical Assn Price: $70.96	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.	[no image]	Epidemic and Peace: 1918 from Greenwood Pub Group	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History from Cambridge University Press Price: $2.55 Customer Review: Except for the part that is left out -- a rather important part, as it turns out -- Alfred Crosby's little essay on human action at a distance is an amusing, not entirely reliable assertion of one of those facts we all know but never perhaps knew we knew -- unknown knowns, as Don Rumsfeld might have... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Germs Seeds & Animals: Studies in Ecological History (Sources and Studies in World History) from M. E. Sharpe Price: $19.80	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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