He divided the history of ranged weapons into three accelerations in his book Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History.  
The introduction of one of his works examines the "kitsch" in Bruegel's print of Temperance to illustrate the advances in European culture since the mid-ninth century and defines the concept of pantometry.  He divided the history of ranged weapons into three accelerations in his book Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History.  This author of the Measure of Reality began another of his works by revisiting Pangaea and also addressed "Winds", "Weeds" and "New Zealand".  One of his works addressed the spread eastward of crops like manioc and papaya and gives a reappraisal of the early spread of syphilis.  He may be best known for a book that addresses the "Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492" and, although he's not Jared Diamond, he has written about the role of animals and germs in the collapse of Latin American civilizations.  For 10 points, name this environmental historian of Ecological Imperials and the Columbian Exchange.
The introduction of one of his works examines the "kitsch" in Bruegel's print of Temperance to illustrate the advances in European culture since the mid-ninth century and defines the concept of pantometry.  
{Alfred W. Crosby}