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Alfred W. Crosby

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environmental historian historian human

Alfred W. Crosby was an American environmental historian whose influential work on ecological and cultural consequences of European expansion helped establish the field of environmental history.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	environmental historian → historian → human →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1931-01-15 →
dateOfDeath	2018-03-14 →
educatedAt	Boston Latin School → Harvard University →
employer	University of Helsinki → University of Texas at Austin → Washington State University →
fieldOfWork	environmental history → global history → historical demography → history of science →
genre	historical writing → non-fiction →
hasAcademicDiscipline	environmental studies → history →
influenced	environmental history → global environmental history → world history →
knownFor	analyzing ecological consequences of European expansion → coining the term "Columbian Exchange" → helping establish environmental history as a field →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
mainInterest	biological exchanges between Old World and New World → ecological impacts of European colonization → history of pandemics →
militaryService	United States Army →
notableIdea	Columbian Exchange → ecological imperialism →
notableWork	America’s Forgotten Pandemic → Children of the Sun → Ecological Imperialism → Germs, Seeds and Animals → The Columbian Exchange → The Ends of the Earth → The Measure of Reality → Throwing Fire →
occupation	historian → university professor →
placeOfBirth	Boston → Massachusetts → United States of America →
placeOfDeath	Massachusetts → Nantucket → United States of America →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Columbian Exchange →	coinedBy