Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond · 1997
Lindy Score
29 yrs
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6
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Why it endured
Why did Western civilization come to dominate the world? Diamond argues it had nothing to do with racial or cultural superiority — everything to do with geography, agriculture, and the direction of continental axes. A Pulitzer Prize-winning answer to the most important question in human history.
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6 people recommend this book
“Guns, Germs, and Steel is one of my favorite books of all time. It answers why history unfolded the way it did.”
Gates Notes
“Jared Diamond's thesis fundamentally changed how I think about why some societies developed faster than others.”
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“Guns, Germs, and Steel is a masterpiece of grand synthesis — Diamond asks the biggest question in history and actually answers it.”
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“No book better explains the geographic and biological roots of global inequality.”
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“He put Guns Germs and Steel and Naomi Klein's book justiably in "fiction".”
“An amazing book.”
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