SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jared Diamond, Christopher Ehret, Long Shadows (Hunter Novel)
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Guns, germs, and steel by jared diamond: book and national geographic society dvd, won the pulitzer prize, explores the linkage between geography, technology, and global human development. University) said that diamond shows how history and biology can enrich one another to produce a deeper understanding of the human condition. Those historical inequalities have cast long shadows on the modern world (13) Diamond reformulated this question about inequality in the modern world as follows: So not because of the racist reasons that people had usually given, but because of the environmental factors. A theme which runs throughout the book is how chains of causes operate in history"s unfolding. (27) The basic questions to be answered is: why did europeans reach and conquer the lands of native americans, instead of vice versa? (354) The comparison begins with food production: a major determinant of local population size and societal complexity hence an ultimate factor behind the conquest. (354)
