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An Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel - The Fate of Human Societies (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel - The Fate of Human Societies (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals
evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human
history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history
unfolded so differently in various parts of the globe. His results
offer new explanations for why the unequal divisions of power and
wealth so familiar to us today came into existence - and have
persisted. Balancing materials drawn from a vast range of sources,
addressing core problems that have fascinated historians,
anthropologists, biologists and geographers alike - and blending
his analysis to create a compelling narrative that became an
international best-seller and reached a broad general market -
required a mastery of the critical thinking skill of reasoning that
few other scholars can rival. Diamond's reasoning skills allow him
to persuade his readers of the value of his interdisciplinary
approach and produce well-structured arguments that keep them
turning pages even as he refocuses his analysis from one disparate
example to another. Diamond adds to that a spectacular ability to
grasp the meaning of the available evidence produced by scholars in
those widely different disciplines - making Guns, Germs and Steel
equally valuable as an exercise in high-level interpretation.
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