The World Until Yesterday, What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Jared Diamond)

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The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance...