History Quote by Charles C. Mann

“A milpa is a field, usually but not always recently cleared, in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once, including maize, avocados, multiple…

— Charles C. Mann

“In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, “climax” ecosystem, usually tall forest.”

— Charles C. Mann

In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than…

— Charles C. Mann

The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents - greens and anti-greens alike - as toothless. But it was also the first time…

— Charles C. Mann

“Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the political failure…

— Charles C. Mann

“The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment. They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst,…

— Charles C. Mann

Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan,…

— Charles C. Mann

The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long,…

— Charles C. Mann

“The varieties are not like islands, carefully apart,” Perales explained. “They are more like gentle hills in a landscape—you see them, they are clearly…

— Charles C. Mann

“export of food from Ireland during the famine: 430,000 tons of grain in 1846 and 1847, the two worst years. “The Almighty indeed sent…

— Charles C. Mann

“all states can be parceled into four types: pluralist, in which the state is seen by its people as having moral legitimacy; populist, in…

— Charles C. Mann

The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other…

— Charles C. Mann