(2009)
| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
Good book about the fact that physical and geographical environment is the single biggest factor in human development; explaining why different continents culturally-evolved in different ways.
Where the book fails is in trying to pretend that the study of history can ever be a science. Given that history is a subject tainted by political correctness and propaganda, this is delusional, at best.
The style of the book is easily-readable but not entirely un-academic, since it is about 100 pages too long. However, author Diamond has such important and interesting things to say, this is not the drawback it would first seem. A book that easily ranks with Willem van Loon’s Story of Mankind.
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