Jetzt kostenlos testen
1493
Inhaltsangabe
From the author of 1491 - the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas - a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.
More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus’s voyages brought them back together - and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas. As Charles Mann shows, this global ecological tumult - the “Columbian Exchange” - underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest generation of research by scientists, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Manila and Mexico City - where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted - the center of the world.
In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination.
Hörerrezensionen
Bewertung
Gesamt
-
-
5 Sterne6
-
4 Sterne3
-
3 Sterne1
-
2 Sterne0
-
1 Stern1
Sprecher
-
-
5 Sterne3
-
4 Sterne2
-
3 Sterne1
-
2 Sterne0
-
1 Stern0
Geschichte
-
-
5 Sterne3
-
4 Sterne3
-
3 Sterne0
-
2 Sterne0
-
1 Stern0
Hörer, die dieses Buch gekauft haben, kauften auch…
-
The Silk Roads
- A New History of the World
- Autor: Peter Frankopan
- Sprecher: Laurence Kennedy
- Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 14 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westward on its axis, it now turns to the east.... For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the West - in the New World of the Americas. Today it is the East that calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from Eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia, deep into China and India, is taking center stage.
-
-
Perspektive der USA
- Von Toni Am hilfreichsten 13.05.2018
-
1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- Autor: Charles C. Mann
- Sprecher: Darrell Dennis
- Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 17 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
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.
-
-
brilliant
- Von A customer Am hilfreichsten 11.07.2017
-
The Wizard and the Prophet
- Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
- Autor: Charles C. Mann
- Sprecher: Bronson Pinchot
- Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 56 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
In 40 years, Earth's population will reach 10 billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups - Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin.
-
-
Balanced, comprehensive, understandable.
- Von xgunnhildurx Am hilfreichsten 21.08.2018
-
A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
- Autor: James Barr
- Sprecher: Peter Noble
- Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 7 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain and France ruled the Middle East. It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs and the Jews and ultimately led to war between the British and the French in 1941 and between the Arabs and the Jews in 1948.
-
Mythos
- Autor: Stephen Fry
- Sprecher: Stephen Fry
- Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 25 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. You'll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia's revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis.
-
-
Herrliches Hörbuch
- Von Jan Onderwater aus NL Am hilfreichsten 17.03.2018
-
East West Street
- Autor: Philippe Sands
- Sprecher: Philippe Sands, David Rintoul
- Spieldauer: 14 Std. und 24 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials.
-
The Silk Roads
- A New History of the World
- Autor: Peter Frankopan
- Sprecher: Laurence Kennedy
- Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 14 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westward on its axis, it now turns to the east.... For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the West - in the New World of the Americas. Today it is the East that calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from Eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia, deep into China and India, is taking center stage.
-
-
Perspektive der USA
- Von Toni Am hilfreichsten 13.05.2018
-
1491
- New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- Autor: Charles C. Mann
- Sprecher: Darrell Dennis
- Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 17 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
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.
-
-
brilliant
- Von A customer Am hilfreichsten 11.07.2017
-
The Wizard and the Prophet
- Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
- Autor: Charles C. Mann
- Sprecher: Bronson Pinchot
- Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 56 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
In 40 years, Earth's population will reach 10 billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups - Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin.
-
-
Balanced, comprehensive, understandable.
- Von xgunnhildurx Am hilfreichsten 21.08.2018
-
A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
- Autor: James Barr
- Sprecher: Peter Noble
- Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 7 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain and France ruled the Middle East. It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs and the Jews and ultimately led to war between the British and the French in 1941 and between the Arabs and the Jews in 1948.
-
Mythos
- Autor: Stephen Fry
- Sprecher: Stephen Fry
- Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 25 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. You'll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia's revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis.
-
-
Herrliches Hörbuch
- Von Jan Onderwater aus NL Am hilfreichsten 17.03.2018
-
East West Street
- Autor: Philippe Sands
- Sprecher: Philippe Sands, David Rintoul
- Spieldauer: 14 Std. und 24 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials.
-
Heart of Europe
- A History of the Holy Roman Empire
- Autor: Peter H. Wilson
- Sprecher: Napoleon Ryan
- Spieldauer: 34 Std. und 3 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire quipped that it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter H. Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual nation-states.
-
-
interesting book, weird German pronunciation
- Von A customer Am hilfreichsten 01.03.2018
-
Crashed
- Autor: Adam Tooze
- Sprecher: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
- Spieldauer: 25 Std. und 27 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the West's triumph since the end of the Cold War, seemed - through greed, malice and incompetence - to be about to bring the entire system to its knees.
-
-
Insightful Analysis
- Von Ed Am hilfreichsten 18.10.2018
-
Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- Autor: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- Sprecher: Simon Slater
- Spieldauer: 7 Std. und 59 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
-
-
Essential reading
- Von Robsky Am hilfreichsten 14.09.2018
-
How Democracies Die
- What History Reveals About Our Future
- Autor: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
- Sprecher: Fred Sanders
- Spieldauer: 8 Std. und 24 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face today. Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition. All three steps are being taken around the world - not least with the election of Donald Trump - and we must all understand how we can stop them.
-
-
Demokratie keine Selbstverständlichkeit
- Von Ingo Am hilfreichsten 14.09.2018
-
The Invention of Nature
- The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
- Autor: Andrea Wulf
- Sprecher: David Drummond
- Spieldauer: 14 Std. und 3 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast; there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story.
-
-
Good. But unecessary chapters on other biographies
- Von André Am hilfreichsten 19.02.2017
-
Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- Autor: Yuval Noah Harari
- Sprecher: Derek Perkins
- Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 17 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
-
-
Challenging the way we view our past and future
- Von Deniz Am hilfreichsten 03.11.2017
-
The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- Autor: Timothy Snyder
- Sprecher: Timothy Snyder
- Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 10 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of power. In the last six years, it has creeped from east to west as nationalism inflames Europe, abetted by Russian propaganda and cyberwarfare.
-
-
Great book, sometimes a bit far fetched
- Von Christopher Am hilfreichsten 10.07.2018
-
Kill All Normies
- Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
- Autor: Angela Nagle
- Sprecher: Mary Sarah
- Spieldauer: 4 Std. und 5 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battleground is the Internet. On one side the alt-right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, struggle sessions and virtue signaling lurk behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The feminist side of the online culture wars has its equally geeky subcultures.
-
Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Autor: John Carreyrou
- Sprecher: Will Damron
- Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 37 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes' worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.
-
-
really enjoyed it
- Von frau ho Am hilfreichsten 22.02.2019
-
Who We Are and How We Got Here
- Autor: David Reich
- Sprecher: John Lescault
- Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 50 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archaeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows listeners to discover how the human genome provides not only all the information a human embryo needs to develop but also the hidden story of our species.
-
Fascism: A Warning
- Autor: Madeleine Albright
- Sprecher: Madeleine Albright
- Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 53 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the 20th century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of America’s most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as US secretary of state. A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, 'is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have.'
-
-
Well delivered
- Von Hanni Danger Am hilfreichsten 10.01.2019
-
The Square and the Tower
- Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
- Autor: Niall Ferguson
- Sprecher: Elliot Hill
- Spieldauer: 17 Std. und 22 Min.
- Ungekürztes
-
Gesamt
-
Sprecher
-
Geschichte
Most history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers, and field marshals. It's about states, armies, and corporations. It's about orders from on high. Even history "from below" is often about trade unions and workers' parties. But what if that's simply because hierarchical institutions create the archives that historians rely on? What if we are missing the informal, less well documented social networks that are the true sources of power and drivers of change?
Das könnte Ihnen auch gefallen
Weitere Titel des Autors
Weitere Titel des Sprechers
Top 10
Welche Titel finden Audible-HörerInnen besonders gut? Die beliebtesten Hörbücher und Hörspiele aus allen Genres gibt’s hier jeden Monat neu.Exklusive Podcasts kostenlos für Abonnenten
Exklusive und wöchentlich neue Reportagen, Interviews, Comedy und Hintergrundgeschichten.


