Seeds of Change : Readings on Cultural Exchange after 1492 : a joint project of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and the National Council for the Social Studies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Mary Ellen, writer, researcher.

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Smithsonian Institution

National Council for the Social Studies.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--History--To 1810--Juvenile literature.

America.

America--Relations--Europe--Juvenile literature.

Europe--Relations--America--Juvenile literature.

Europe.

Culture diffusion--America--History--Juvenile literature.

Culture diffusion.

Indians--First contact with other peoples--Juvenile literature.

Indians.

Indians--First contact with other peoples.

International relations.

Genre:

History.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], 126 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Menlo Park, Calif. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1993.

Contents:

To the Student

1. The Encounter: A Meeting of Two Old Worlds

2. Disease: An Ally in Conquest. Health Profiles / John W. Verano and Douglas H. Ubelaker; The Plague Ravages the City; Conquistadors and Disease / Alfred W. Crosby, Jr.; History of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford; I Have Spoken / Four Bears

3. Corn: An American Indian Gift to the World. Thank the American Indian / Herbert J. Spinden; History of the New World / Giralamo Benzoni; Maize / Garcilaso de la Vega; The Strange Origin of Corn / Abnaki; Millions in Tassel / Dorothy Giles

4. The Potato: Andean Food for Millions. American Food Crops in the Old World / William McNeill; The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 / Cecil Woodham-Smith; One Happy Ending / Thomas Gallagher; Praise the Potato! / Jack Denton Scott

5. The Horse: Return of a Native. Victory at Cintla / Bernal Díaz; Mares and Horses / Garcilaso de la Vega; The Horse Culture / Herman J. Viola; The War God's Horse Song; A Frontierswoman on a Montana Ranch / Nannie T. Alderson

6. Sugar: A Sweet Tooth Leads to Slavery. Pleasure, Profit, and Satiation / Sidney W. Mintz; The Middle Passage / Edward Reynolds; A Slaver's Log Book / Captain Theophilus Conneau; The History of Mary Prince / Related by herself

7. One World: Choosing a Positive Future.

Notes:

Writer/Researcher: Mary Ellen Jones. Contributing Writers: Sue Boulais, James E. Davis, Sharryl Davis Hawke ... Cover Art and Original Artwork: Rachel Gage. Cartography: Krist Mathisen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has "This Book is Property Of" printed on verso of cover.

ISBN:

020129429X

9780201294293

OCLC:

28295572