The Ongoing Columbian Exchange: Stories of Biological and Economic Transfer in World History

This unique encyclopedia enables students to understand the myriad ways that the Columbian Exchange shaped the modern world, covering every major living organism from pathogens and plants to insects and mammals.

• Represents the only encyclopedia to comprehensively treat the Columbian Exchange and document how this watershed event in history changed the world, not just in North America but worldwide

• Provides full accounts of demographic and epidemiological trends and how the planet's current biodiversity resulted from the events of the Columbian Exchange

• Includes primary documents that offer students material for analysis and promote critical thinking skills, thus supporting Common Core State Standards

• Supplies both entry bibliographies and a selected, general bibliography to direct students to sources of additional information