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Download full textNader, Helen – 1989
Social historians are taught that historical changes are caused by large social and economic forces, rather than great individuals; and so they study groups of people, broad economic movements, and underlying institutional structures that change slowly over time. But the general public demands information about the individual person told through…
Descriptors: Biographies, Chronicles, Economic Change, North American History
Crosby, Alfred W.; Nader, Helen – 1989
The far-reaching and transforming interactions of the Old World and the New are known today as "the Columbian Exchange." Part 1 of this booklet is an introduction by John J. Patrick dealing with teaching about the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Part 2, "Columbus and Ecological Imperialism," by Alfred W. Crosby, provides an…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), American Indians, Animals, Biographies
