Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- 5 The Columbian Exchange
- 6 The slave trade and the African diaspora
- 7 The organization of trade in Europe and Asia, 1400–1800
- 8 Entrepreneurs, families, and companies
- 9 Silver in a global context, 1400–1800
- 10 Dutch and English trade to the East: the Indian Ocean and the Levant, to about 1700
- 11 Plantation societies
- 12 Industrious revolutions in early modern world history
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
5 - The Columbian Exchange
from Part Two - Trade, Exchange, and Production
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part One Migrations and Encounters
- Part Two Trade, Exchange, and Production
- 5 The Columbian Exchange
- 6 The slave trade and the African diaspora
- 7 The organization of trade in Europe and Asia, 1400–1800
- 8 Entrepreneurs, families, and companies
- 9 Silver in a global context, 1400–1800
- 10 Dutch and English trade to the East: the Indian Ocean and the Levant, to about 1700
- 11 Plantation societies
- 12 Industrious revolutions in early modern world history
- Part Three Religion and Religious Change
- Part Four Questions of Method
- Index
- References
Summary
The term "The Columbian Exchange" was popularized by Alfred W. Crosby's seminal 1972 book, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, which emphasized the transfers of the diseases, plants and animals introduced as a consequence of the continuous communications between the New World-North and South America, and the Old-Europe, Asia and Africa. The Columbian Exchange begins in the first global age, starting in the mid-fifteenth century, and was dominated by Spain and Portugal until the mid-seventeenth century. The Columbian Exchange resulted in the transfer of Old World diseases to the Americas, and vice versa. The time of arrival of the diseases varied depending on the nature of the disease and the mode of transmission. Old World plants preferred by the Europeans took slow and tenuous root in the Caribbean islands. Specimens of many of the animals of the Americas were sent to Europe for display and study, but none became popular food items save for the turkey.
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