Fish, Gold, and Cotton: New World Resources in Western Europe

Rachel Carson Center (LMU RCC) - HD by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

May 2, 201100:00:00Technology

Exposing a phenomenon overlooked by many historians, Carson Fellow Donald Worster explains the importance of New World resources on Western European society in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Worster details th...

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