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The Columbian exchange [videorecording] / Produced for PBS by WGBH (Boston) and BBC Television (United Kingdom), NHK (Japan), RAI (Italy), RTP (Portugal), NDR (Germany) and TVE and SEQC (Spain).

Contributor(s): WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.) | Films for the Humanities (Firm)Material type: FilmFilmSeries: Columbus and the age of discoveryPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Inc, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 inRecord Searches:
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Content type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videocassetteOther title: Columbus and the age of discoverySubject(s): Columbus, Christopher | International trade | Indians of North America -- History -- 16th century | Indians of South America -- Agriculture | Indians of Central America -- Agriculture | Indians of North America -- AgricultureOnline resources: Columbian exchange, the video file 13649 | Columbian exchange, the video file 19614 Summary: This program examines the interchange of horses, cattle, corn, potatoes, and sugar cane between the Old World and the New, and the lasting impact of this interchange on the people of both worlds.
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VHS - Original Format VHS - Original Format American University
VHS 1436 Available
VHS - Original Format VHS - Original Format Hofstra University
VHS 1436 Available

VHS format.

"2983".

Exquisitely photographed, painstakingly researched, this 7-nation co-production chronicles Columbus's extraordinary journey and legacy. The difinitive series commemorating the quincentennial, this video history relives Columbus's daring and dangerous voyages and their momentous repercussions - for both the New World and the Old.

Funding provided by XEROX and by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, George D. Smith Fund, Lowell Institute, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers.

The companion book to Columbus and the Age of Discovery by Zvi Dor-Ner is published by William Morrow & Co.

This program examines the interchange of horses, cattle, corn, potatoes, and sugar cane between the Old World and the New, and the lasting impact of this interchange on the people of both worlds.

V-1995.

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