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J.R. McNeill
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BIOGRAPHY

University Professor, History and Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Author of Something New Under the Sun; Mosquito Empire; and others.

Primary Contributions (1)
Columbus arriving in the New World
Columbian Exchange, the largest part of a more general process of biological globalization that followed the transoceanic voyaging of the 15th and 16th centuries. Ecological provinces that had been torn apart by continental drift millions of years ago were suddenly reunited by oceanic shipping,…
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