“In Deloria's opinion, archaeology is mainly about easing white guilt. Determining that Indians superseded other people fits neatly into this plan. "If… — Charles C. Mann Indians Copy Share Image
“the Inka style was severe, abstract, stripped down to geometric forms—startlingly contemporary, in fact. (According to the Peruvian critic César Paternosto, such… — Charles C. Mann Art Copy Share Image
“In the first two centuries of colonization, the border between natives and newcomers was porous, almost nonexistent. The two societies mingled in… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, the aging John Adams recalled the Massachusetts of his youth as a multiracial society. “Aaron Pomham… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Where does government come from?” Haas asked. “What makes people decide to surrender some of their personal liberty to it? What did… — Charles C. Mann Freedom Copy Share Image
Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years.… — Charles C. Mann Economic growth Copy Share Image
Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to… — Charles C. Mann Business Copy Share Image
“all states can be parceled into four types: pluralist, in which the state is seen by its people as having moral legitimacy;… — Charles C. Mann Politics Copy Share Image
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“Until Columbus, Indians were a keystone species in most of the hemisphere. Annually burning undergrowth, clearing and replanting forests, building canals and… — Charles C. Mann Environment Copy Share Image
A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to… — Charles C. Mann Body Copy Share Image
“Before Columbus, Holmberg believed, both the people and the land had no real history. Stated so baldly, this notion-that the indigenous peoples… — Charles C. Mann History Copy Share Image
“Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. In the sixteenth… — Charles C. Mann Books Copy Share Image
