Guns, Germs and Steel A Short History of Everybody for the Last 10,000 Years
Diamond, Jared Publisher: Penguin Year Published: 1997 Pages: 480pp Price: $35.00 Resource Type: Book
Abstract: An exploration of the prickly question of racial disparity in humanity's history of technological progress. Why did Europeans surge ahead in intellectual and cultural innovation? Why did the native cultures of North America and Madagascar stagnate or arrest themselves for hundreds of years?
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