The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 » (30th Anniversary Edition)

ALFRED W. CROSBY JR. is Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Geography at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (1986), America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (1989), The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 (1997), and most recently Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History (2002).

The classic work that revolutionized how we understand the environmental and cultural impact of the European conquest of the Americas.