University Name: Annotated Bibliography on the Columbian Exchange

This annotated bibliography examines the Columbian Exchange, a pivotal period of global interaction following Christopher Columbus's voyages. It analyzes three key sources: a study comparing the Columbian Exchange to earlier trans-Eurasian food globalization, an overview of the Columbian Exchange discussing the flow of plants, microbes, and animals across the Atlantic, and a study on food globalization in prehistory. The first source, by Boivin, Fuller, and Crowther, explores the exchange of starch crops and compares it to the Columbian Exchange, emphasizing the role of fast-growing crops. The second source, by Earle, defines the Columbian Exchange as the flow of plants, microbes, and animals and highlights the impact of European colonization on the New World. The third source, by Liu and Jones, discusses food globalization in prehistory. The bibliography offers a comprehensive overview of the Columbian Exchange, its biological and cultural consequences, and the historical context of food exchange.

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Boivin, Nicole, Dorian Q. Fuller, and Alison Crowther. "Old World globalization and the
Columbian exchange: comparison and contrast." World Archaeology44.3 (2012): 452-469.
Nocole Boivin and Alison Crowther are the professors from the School of Archaeology affiliated
to University of Oxford. Dorian Q Fuller is the professor of Institute of Archaeology affiliated to
University College of London. The authors have devoted themselves to write books on
Archaeology. Even they have a fewer publications before. It is one of the most comprehensive
studies by the authors on the food globalization. The book explores about the episode of
prehistoric episodes of Trans Eurasian of the globalization of food which is supported by the
exchange of the starch crops which is of long distance. The authors drew the comparison with
the Columbian Exchange, they particularly emphasized upon the role of the crops, which are fast
growing while optimizing the productivity, gave consideration at a minimal rate to the other
drivers (1) In this article, the authors further evaluated the timing and sequences of the exchange
about trans Eurasian and emphasized upon a greater consideration to the dimensions of the
translocation of plants. The model has been outlined about the the authors in this book about the
translocations of the plants and the way they conceptualize the plants that they mentioned in the
article changes through the passage of time, where the social factors are dominating in the earlier
stage.
Earle, Rebecca. "The columbian exchange." The Oxford Handbook of Food
History (2012): 341.
Rebecca Earle is the professor of History from the University of Warwick. Her researches are
about the history of intellectual and cultural independent and colonial Spanish America. Her

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books reveal the importance of the food in terms of constructing the colonial expansion in the
early stage of Hispanic world. Her recent book is the Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and
Colonial Experience in the year 2012. Her previous works also talks about the elite’s
engagement of Nationalism in the 18th century. Her works include the Indians and Mythmaking
in Spanish America from 1810 to 1930 and the Spanish Work of Independence (1810- 1825). In
this book, the Columbian Exchange talks about the flow of plants, microbes and animals across
the Atlantic Ocean and Beyond this particular geographical area. The term was coined in the year
1972 by Alfred Cosby, the Columbian Exchange accelerates historic Voyage of Christopher
Columbus in the year 1492. Crosby used the term Columbian exchange to describe the process
about the diffusion of Biology that arose across the colonization of America. The book also talks
about how the Crossby in his book : Columbian Exchange and Cultural Consequences talked
about a larger results arising from the transferring of the diseases, animals and plants that got
ensued after the year 1492 (2). The book includes a series of essays which are interlocking in
nature, also documented the influence of the occidental World Plants and animals of America,
propagation of the Foods of New World and how the colonization by European had resulted in
the pathogen transmission. The forceful arguments have also been said to support the claim of
Crosby that the significant result of the colonization by Europeans of the new world having the
nature which is biological.

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References
1. Liu, Xinyi, and Martin K. Jones. "Food globalisation in prehistory: top down or bottom
up?." Antiquity 88.341 (2014): 956-963.
2. Su, Nan-Yao. "How to Become a Successful Invader §." Florida entomologist96.3
(2013): 765-769.