Research Guides: Geography 103: Cultural Geography: Columbian Exchange: Everything Else

Resources

The Ongoing Columbian Exchange
Call Number: WCU EBook
ISBN: 9781610697958
Publication Date: 2015
A-Z entries on resources disseminated via the Columbian Exchange. Each entry includes a section on Origins as well as a section on that resources as it relates to the Columbian Exchange.
1493 by Charles C. Mann
Call Number: WCU GENERAL D228 .M36 2012
ISBN: 0307278247
Publication Date: 2012
Voyages of Discovery by David Boyle
Call Number: WCU GENERAL G80 .B79 2011
ISBN: 050028959X
Publication Date: 2011
The Atlantic Connection: A History of the Atlantic World 1450-1990 by Anna Suranyi
Call Number: WCU GENERAL D210 .S87 2015
ISBN: 0415639867
Publication Date: 2015

Tobacco Atlas
WCU E-Book

WHO data presented as maps, charts, and graphs. Statistics and information on tobacco’s harmful effects, the types of tobacco products used, tobacco production, tobacco use, the influence of the tobacco industry, and the success of health-education projects also included. A glossary, a history of tobacco, and a bibliography round out the volume.

The Cambridge World History of Human Disease
Call Number: WCU GENERAL R131 .C233 1993
ISBN: 0521332869
Publication Date: 1993
Use chapters V and VI for the history of diseases by region. Use chapter VII for the geography of human disease. Use chapter VIII for information by disease (some entries include a section on history and geography).
A Short History of Disease by Sean Martin
Call Number: WCU E-Book
ISBN: 1843444194
Publication Date: 2015
Chapter 4 "The New World" focuses on disease both to and from the Americas. Also use the index to search for specific diseases.
The Deadly Truth by Gerald N. Grob
Call Number: WCU E-BOOK
ISBN: 9780674017573
Publication Date: 2005
Use Chapters 1 and 2 for disease in the Americas, both pre- and post-Columbus.

Origin and Antiquity of Syphilis
Reassesses the documentary and skeletal evidence relating to the debate on the origins and spread of syphilis throughout the world. The abundance of New World human skeletal material suggestive of syphilis and the paucity of similar evidence in collections of Old World skeletal remains prior to 1492 indicate that syphilis originated in America and was carried to Europe by Christopher Columbus's crew.