Water is the first medicine

how silver mined in Bolivia funded economic development in rural China and wars waged by the Spanish empire

and now there's Roanhorse

Louise Erdrich's latest novel

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created rice Water is the first medicineA deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491. Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico Citywhere Asia, Europe, and