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1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Categories: History, Americas
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Publisher's Summary
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last 30 years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.
In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them:
- In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe.
- Certain cities - such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital - were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore, Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets.
- The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids.
- Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as "man's first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering".
- Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it - a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge.
- Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings.
Mann sheds clarifying light on the methods used to arrive at these new visions of the pre-Columbian Americas and how they have affected our understanding of our history and our thinking about the environment. His book is an exciting and learned account of scientific inquiry and revelation.
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- nicolethebumblebee
- 2019-03-07
This needs to be mandatory reading!
I absolutely loved this book. There is so much to learn from it that reading (listening to) it once is not enough, I am tempted to start it over again right now. If you are even slightly interested in the history of the America's, read it now! Don't hesitate! You will not be dissapointed.
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- David
- 2021-01-08
Loved the first & last chapters
If you have an academic interest in this field this book is for you. If all you are is curious then it might be a bit much, a bit dense. The first and last chapters really floored me though. Like Diamond's "Guns Germs and Steal" this book will give you a vague sense of a 'new' and emerging history, and for that it is worth every moment!
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- Karen Waite
- 2020-12-14
Recommended!
Very good research and writing. In scope it reminded me of “Guns, Germs and Steel”.
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- Papa Kilo PKDS
- 2020-02-08
A Fantastic Listen
Great narration makes a huge difference when listening to audio books. This book has it all.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-07-24
thought provoking and informative
I always love history that takes the simplified or out of date lessons of grade schools and destroys them with the most recent facts and discoveries. so much of today's problems are founded on simply untrue information. this opened my eyes to the real history of humans in the Americas.
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- Swassesois
- 2018-01-06
Lengthy for my first audio book.
I found something interesting in every chapter. But had to take some breaks due to day dreaming. Great experience.
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- Christopher
- 2017-01-19
Exposes Non-Academic Audience to The Debate Between Ideas of Pre-Colombian America's
Overall this book is full of interesting ideas and great insights into what often never makes jt into history books or the histories we have been taught.
However, I found the narration to be far too slow and inappropriate delays and interpretations of commas and sentence structure made listening difficult and sometimes unpleasant.
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- Calvin Guthrie
- 2016-09-29
Awesome Historic Accounting Well Told
Obviously extensively researched and told from as disinterested observer and not falling prey to temptation to editorialize these lives and cultures. The author takes obvious pains to not apply 21st century values and project them into what is already a deeply fascinating story on its own.
The actor was polished and clearly enunciated even difficult native names and places. Overall an excellent choice of narrator.
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- Kevin
- 2019-04-23
Poorly organized and narrated
This book contains many interesting facts and theories, but it is written in a very journalistic, anecdotal style that lacks structure. The narrator is barely adequate, suffering from pacing, intonation and emphasis lapses, as if he’s reading the material for the first time. He is also somewhat monotone, never changing his affect. For a better presentation of much of the same material, I highly recommend Ancient Civilizations of North America, by Prof. Edwin Barnhart of The Great Courses, available on Audible.
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- Michael
- 2017-05-24
Thought Provoking
This was not really worth a 4, but it got extra points for interesting things to think about, even if not all were well supported. Despite the title, this is not a picture of the Americas in 1491, instead it looks at history in the Americas prior (and shortly after) 1491. It is less focused than I like in a history and a lot of the science quoted it disputed at best, but nevertheless were interesting (and offbeat). The author has a clear point of view, and does not always analyze evidence objectively. So take almost everything presented within with a grain (or more) of salt.
Nevertheless I recommend reading this, as the author, although bias, wears his bias on his sleeve, and presents the materials as alternative ideas to consider (and may become fully accepted in the future).
The book presents ideas about more advanced, more populous, more political, earlier arriving, and wider spread, early Americans that were differently (not less) developed than 1491 Europe.
I was dubious about some of the archaeological dates and analysis but I enjoyed thinking about many of the ideas presented. Particularly interesting was the possibility that some of the key features of US democracy and egalitarianism was based upon northeastern early America traditions and that US Northern anti-slavery and Southern pro-slavery might be related to the slavery beliefs of the early Americans in each area.
I found the narration excellent, clear, light and expressive and it did well with the many complex names.
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- Miles
- 2017-06-12
Not enough history or historical evidence
Mann makes both large, bold assertions about how "historians" are wrong about pre-Columbian societies in Americas and some smaller ideas as well. I found in general there just wasn't enough "meat" for me as to what it was really like. Instead, he focuses on disproving a lot of existing theories. Which might have been great if I already had a strong background in the material but I didn't.
When he does get into detail it's way down in the weeds. I don't know why this book did not resonate with me, I had in fact planned to get 1492, but just found it so difficult to stay engaged or to care or to even understand the point he was trying to make half the time. There were too many personal anecdotes early on, too much fighting the power in the middle, and too much piece by piece detail of leaders later on that never really clued me in to what these societies were really like. It just felt really tough to pull out more than a thesis from the book. I am generally a big fan of non-fiction, but this one didn't work for me.
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- Dr. Metaphor
- 2018-08-16
good book, bad narrator
Mann does a reasonably good job of impartiality sumarizing the scholarship in this field. Very interesting book made much more difficult to understand by the very poor prosody and enunciation of the narrator.
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- Blake
- 2016-11-22
Great overall, but terrible pronunciation
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I haven't listened to any of his other performances, but I will say that his pronunciation on the majority of the names of people, groups, and place names was really bad. I don't expect perfect pronunciation, but if someone who had no background in any of the subject matter tried to hold a conversation using what they heard on this, someone familiar with the material might not even understand what they were referring to.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-09-06
Great book, deserves a better narrator
A fascinating book. I thought I knew all about pre Colombian America in grad school, but Mann presents recent research that flies in the face of conventional assumptions. The narrator, however, seems not to understand what he is reading, and distractingly mispronounces a great many foreign words.
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- Lea Holland
- 2019-08-28
Narrator spoils the book
I am only a half hour into this book and I am already turned off by the narrator's sing-song voice. Dennis is more appropriate to a young adult novel than a semi-scholarly book.
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- W. Handy
- 2019-08-02
Interesting material; poor reading
Though the author occasionally bogs down in detail (especially early in the book), there is a wealth of exciting information here. The simplistic Noble Savage ideas of our textbooks are first exploded, then replaced with much richer views. So too, are ideas of “untrammeled wilderness” which were supposedly untouched by the Indians’ miraculously light tread. The remarkable (if rarely remarked heretofore) genius of Native Americans’ management of their social and physical environments is vividly conveyed. Sadly, the reader’s performance is stilted, sounding a little like someone reading to a child and a little like the child himself, awkward with expression, flummoxed by complex sentences, and mystified by phrasing. His reading often detracted from my enjoyment.
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