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About Alfred W Crosby

Alfred W Crosby is professor emeritus of history, geography, and American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972), Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 (1986), The Measure of Reality (December 1997), and Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy (January 2006).

Articles by Alfred W Crosby

Thursday 22nd December

Oil – the long and short of it

In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. As Isabel Hilton asks: What does 2006 have in store? (Part one)
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