“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
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
“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
The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents - greens and anti-greens alike - as toothless. But it was also the… — Charles C. Mann Around the world Copy Share Image
“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 Determining that Indians superseded other people fits neatly into this plan.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
