1491.0
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
Recommended by Cleo Abram and John Leguizamo
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in American History, World History, and Native American.
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 preColumbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who a...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in American History, World History, and Native American.
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Cleo Abram
“3 books every Latinx should read! Open Veins Of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano, 1491 by Charles Mann, Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States”
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