“Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris—Europeans flocked to every form of painful death… — Charles C. Mann Colonialism Copy Share Image
Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water… — Charles C. Mann Best Copy Share Image
As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become… — Charles C. Mann Change Copy Share Image
“At Marajó, Meggers and Evans soon noticed an oddity: the earliest traces of Marajóara culture were the most elaborate. As the centuries… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“I kept waiting for the book to appear. The wait grew more frustrating when my son entered school and was taught the… — Charles C. Mann Book Copy Share Image
“After 1492 the world’s ecosystems collided and mixed as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.” — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter. — Charles C. Mann Backward Copy Share Image
Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering. — Charles C. Mann Come Copy Share Image
“the king was talking with Bartolomé de las Casas, a fiery Dominican priest who had just completed Brief Account of the Destruction… — Charles C. Mann De Las Casas Copy Share Image
Canceling the climate pact will loudly demonstrate Trump's willingness to fight - an important step for the White House because, on a… — Charles C. Mann Fight Copy Share Image
Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about… — Charles C. Mann Change Copy Share Image
Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets. — Charles C. Mann Coal Copy Share Image
“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did… — Charles C. Mann Writing Copy Share Image
The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act,… — Charles C. Mann Air pollution Copy Share Image
“With its federal government that can supersede state and local law, its dependence on rule by the majority rather than consensus, its… — Charles C. Mann Federal government Copy Share Image
So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by… — Charles C. Mann City 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 John adams Copy Share Image
Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use… — Charles C. Mann Being Copy Share Image
