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Charles C. Mann

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Native Americans Taught Colonists How to Fight—And to Live Without Kings

Unlike in Europe, native rulers had little formal authority; they had to persuade others to follow their ideas.

by Charles C. Mann via Reason on June 6, 2026
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It

Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life.

by Charles C. Mann via The New Atlantis on December 9, 2024
The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation

'The Population Bomb' made dire predictions—and triggered a wave of repression around the world.

by Charles C. Mann via Smithsonian Magazine on January 1, 2018
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Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.

by Charles C. Mann via The Atlantic
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on March 1, 2002

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A faux Brazilian village constructed for Henry II and Catherine de’ Medici on the banks of the Seine in Rouen, France, and inhabited by fifty Tupinambá people who were forcibly brought there from Brazil, 1550.

The Discovery of Europe

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

by Álvaro Enrigue via New York Review of Books on December 28, 2023

Map of world happiness.

Are Things Getting Better or Worse?

Why assessing the state of the world is harder than it sounds.

by Joshua Rothman via The New Yorker on July 23, 2018

The Greatest American Historian You've Never Heard Of

An appreciation of Alfred Crosby, who coined the term "Columbian exchange."

by Benjamin Breen on April 12, 2018

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