A weed nicknamed the “English-Man’s Foot” is one of many New England flora that form a “portmanteau biota” key to the “ecological” form of this process according to Alfred Crosby. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this process that is paired with “culture” in another book that illustrates it through a “dead silence” surrounding the Antiguan slave trade in a passage from Mansfield Park.
ANSWER: imperialism [accept Culture and Imperialism; accept Ecological Imperialism] (Edward Said wrote Culture and Imperialism.)
[10e] In an earlier book, Crosby coined this two-word phrase to describe the trade of goods and ideas between Europe and the Americas after 1492.
ANSWER: Columbian Exchange [accept The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492]
[10h] Crosby cites a “law” named after a historian with this surname that links immunological advantages with imperialism. A historian with this surname detailed the “differential resistance” of Caribbean natives and Europeans in the book Mosquito Empires.
ANSWER: McNeill [accept McNeill’s Law; accept William Hardy McNeill; accept John Robert McNeill]
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