{"id":95,"date":"2009-12-21T22:18:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T06:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/?p=95"},"modified":"2010-02-21T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T06:40:39","slug":"1491-new-revelations-of-the-americas-before-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/2009\/12\/21\/1491-new-revelations-of-the-americas-before-columbus\/","title":{"rendered":"1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400032059?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=rebuithetower-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1400032059\">1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=rebuithetower-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1400032059\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nBy: Charles Mann 2006<br \/>\n541 pages<\/p>\n<p>Mann draws on recent scholarship to offer a radical picture of American history before the\u00a0arrival\u00a0of Columbus. \u00a0This book tours major American civilizations arguing for their sophistication and scale. \u00a0Mann builds a case for extensive settlement across the continents starting over 30,000 years ago. \u00a0These civilizations engineered their environment to support complex agriculture enabling social systems with large concentrations of people. \u00a0They developed sophisticated\u00a0political\u00a0systems which governed empires spanning thousands of miles. \u00a0Much of this was never apparent to early colonizers due to massive death from the pathogens they introduced. \u00a0While Mann presents many contentious issues as settled he makes a\u00a0convincing\u00a0case that American civilization was far more developed than your history textbook would have you believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus By: Charles Mann 2006 541 pages Mann draws on recent scholarship to offer a radical picture of American history before the\u00a0arrival\u00a0of Columbus. \u00a0This book tours major American civilizations arguing for their sophistication and scale. \u00a0Mann builds a case for extensive settlement across the continents starting over 30,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}