Guns, Germs, and Steel
6 people have this book on the record — 5 of 6 verdicts positive. The dissent stays on the page.
I have a soft spot for extremely broad histories like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel and Joseph Henrich's The WEIRDest People in the World.
on fivebooks.com · 10 Dec 2022 · Report
Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel
on blog.daviskedrosky.com · 19 Aug 2022 · Report
I still rank Guns, Germs, and Steel as one of the best things I’ve ever read.
on gatesnotes.com · 20 May 2019 · Report
The book is a masterpiece in terms of integrating a vast range of material from different disciplines, material on language, archaeology, comparative bio-geography, with also lots of his own ethnographic field studies peppered in there.
on fivebooks.com · 13 Oct 2016 · Report
Theory of history of human civilizations. This fascinating book explains why Eaurasians came to dominate most of the world, why native American, Australian, and sub-Saharan African peoples never had a good chance; and why European diseases decimated the native American population, but not the other way around.
on radex.io · 1 Jan 2016 · Report
This is a really useful way of trying to figure out why different humans turned out the way they did, while considering the influences of technology and of the environment.
on fivebooks.com · 12 Jun 2009 · Report