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TITLE: Guns, Germs and Steel AUTHOR: Jared Diamond NUMBER OF PAGES: 425 READING TIME: 8 hours 45 minutes PRICE: $25.99 WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Diamond calls this a “short history
of everybody for the last 13,000 years”. As a professor of geography, Diamond examines the development of civilisations and, not surprisingly, argues that societies blessed with geographic and environmental advantages were more able to advance from nomadic hunter gatherers to stable agricultural communities. This “luck” nurtured the development of written communication, technology, organised governments and exploration. Superior skills and resources, applied to the creation of advanced weaponry, facilitated the domination of other communities. An unplanned, but undoubtedly powerful ally, was an immunity to diseases. Germs exported by travelling explorers, missionaries and armies weakened indigenous populations – with devastating consequences.
WHO IT'S FOR: History helps us understand the present
and provides a framework for thinking about the future. What helped create the modern world in which we live? What might we leverage to support sustainable growth? As COVID infection rates soar, and many economies crumble, will we see germs again rearranging world order?
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WHY YOU SHOULD READ IT: This is a well-researched
theory on why different societies and cultures may have prospered through the ages, whilst others died out. First published in 1997, this book went on to be an international bestseller and won a Pulitzer Prize for Diamond – but its controversial premise also lead to many negative critiques.
NOTABLE QUOTES: “While nomads and tribespeople
occasionally defeat organised governments and religions, the trend over the past 13,000 years has been for the nomads and tribespeople to lose.”
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