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CALLOWAY, COLIN G. New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (1997). Excellent synthesis of recent work on early history of contacts between Europeans and Native Americans.
COLLIS, MAURICE. Cortés and Montezuma (1999). Stirring account of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico.
CROSBY, ALFRED W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (2003). Describes changes in European and Native American life resulting from contact between the two cultures.
KRECH SHEPARD, III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (1999). Describes the many ways that Native Americans transformed the landscape long before Columbus.
LEÓN-PORTILLA, MIGUEL. Aztec Thought and Culture (1963). Sensitive analysis of Aztec intellectual life.
MANN, CHARLES C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2005). A thoughtful and entertaining overview of recent findings about the ancient peoples of the Americas.
MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT. Christopher Columbus, Mariner (1955). Classic account of Columbus’s voyages.
SALE, KIRKPATRICK. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy (2006). Presents Columbus and his successors as despoilers of an agrarian paradise.
VIOLA, HERMAN J., AND CAROLYN MARGOLIS, EDITORS. The Seeds of Change (1991). Beautifully illustrated anthology of articles on the environmental impact of Columbus’s “discovery” of America.
COLLIS, MAURICE. Cortés and Montezuma (1999). Stirring account of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico.
CROSBY, ALFRED W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (2003). Describes changes in European and Native American life resulting from contact between the two cultures.
KRECH SHEPARD, III. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History (1999). Describes the many ways that Native Americans transformed the landscape long before Columbus.
LEÓN-PORTILLA, MIGUEL. Aztec Thought and Culture (1963). Sensitive analysis of Aztec intellectual life.
MANN, CHARLES C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2005). A thoughtful and entertaining overview of recent findings about the ancient peoples of the Americas.
MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT. Christopher Columbus, Mariner (1955). Classic account of Columbus’s voyages.
SALE, KIRKPATRICK. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy (2006). Presents Columbus and his successors as despoilers of an agrarian paradise.
VIOLA, HERMAN J., AND CAROLYN MARGOLIS, EDITORS. The Seeds of Change (1991). Beautifully illustrated anthology of articles on the environmental impact of Columbus’s “discovery” of America.
