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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · 2006 · 480 pages
In this groundbreaking study, Mann shows how a new generation of anthropologists and archaeologists, using new research techniques, have come to the persuasive conclusion that more people lived in the Americas in 1491 than in Europe.
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John Leguizamo
“3 books every Latinx should read! Open Veins Of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano, 1491 by Charles Mann, Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States”↗
Boyan Slat
“"1491 by @CharlesCMann Societies in pre-Columbian Americas were far more complex, technologically advanced, and populous than most people realize. A book brimming with mind-blowing facts."”↗
