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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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