finished mann's 1493: uncovering the new world columbus created, which puts the whole globalization thing in a new light --- it was easily as good as his 1491: new revelations of the americas before columbus ---- also read bartolomé de las casas' thoroughly depressing a brief account of the destruction of the indies or, a faithful narrative of the horrid and unexampled mMassacres, butcheries, and all manner of cruelties, at the time of its first discovery by them, published in 1552 --- we need to rethink columbus day