Jared M. Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1999 г.
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Объем: 480 стр.
Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond`s thesis sheds light on why Western civilization became hegemonic: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples` environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Those who domesticated plants and animals early got a head start on developing writing, government, technology, weapons of war, and immunity to deadly germs.
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