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Charles C. Mann...
...Charles C. Mann 480 pages
...convenient fiction that American history starts with Columbus. In 1491 Mann tells the story of a lost world of vast, glittering cities, sophisticated cultures, and an agricultural economy built without the aid of horses or, largely, the wheel?all destroyed by the epidemics initiated by contact with European explorers. The Indians the Pilgrims encountered were merely the last survivors, refugees from a civilization that had already collapsed. "Think of the fruitful impact on Europe and its descendants from contacting Asia," Mann instructs us. "Imagine the effect on these places and people from a second Asia. Along with the unparalleled loss...
DEEP SOUTH SALLY MANN It was with haunting, sometimes sexually charged shots of her children, maturing enigmatically in the Virginia hill country, that Mann first gained notice in the late 1980s. Some years later she moved into territory even more shadowy than the boundary between childhood and adulthood: the Southern landscape. Through darkroom accidents and her use of 19th century glass-plate developing techniques, these pictures come to us fogged, scratched and indistinct, like her portrait of a wounded tree, above. Her mesmerizing book is not so much a portrait of the South as it is a dream about...
...group gave itself the nickname the Vulcans, for the Roman god of fire. For more details, see Rise of the Vulcans, by James Mann...