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Oct326: La tesi centrale del saggio di Diamond è che la causa dominante dei disuguali gradi di sviluppo tra popolazioni umane sia data dalle condizioni ambientali più o meno favorevoli. Il saggio di Landes ha un argomento un po' differente, e cioè il disuguale grado di sviluppo economico e di ricchezza tra popolazioni. Ma sulle cause di queste differenze è più articolato, e mette in rilievo l'importanza dei fattori culturali. È un punto di vista piuttosto diverso, e questo rende interessante il confronto tra le due opere.… (mere)
questbird: Big History is a multidisciplinary approach (like Diamond's) which integrates the origin of the universe, deep time, human prehistory and history.
br77rino: Children of the Ice Age is an excellent anthropological discussion of the link that became homo sapiens. Guns, Germs, and Steel covers the more recent territory of racial evolution within homo sapiens.
Indeholder "Preface. Why is World History Like an Onion?", "Prologue. Yali's Question", " The regionally differing courses of history", "Part 1. From Eden to Cajamarca", " Chapter 1. Up to the Starting Line", " What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.?", " Chapter 2. A Natural Experiment of History", " How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands", " Chapter 3. Collision at Cajamarca", " Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain", "Part 2. The Rise and Spread of Food Production", " Chapter 4. Farmer Power", " The roots of guns, germs, and steel", " Chapter 5. History's Haves and Have-nots", " Geographic differences in the onset of food production", " Chapter 6. To Farm or not To Farm", " Causes of the spread of food production", " Chapter 7. How to Make an Almond", " The unconscious development of ancient crops", " Chapter 8. Apples or Indians", " Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants?", " Chapter 9. Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle", " Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated?", " Chapter 10. Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes", " Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents?", "Part 3. From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel", " Chapter 11. Lethal Gift of Livestock", " The evolution of germs", " Chapter 12. Blueprints and Borrowed Letters", " The evolution of writing", " Chapter 13. Necessity's Mother", " The evolution of technology", " Chapter 14. From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy", " The evolution of government and religion", "Part 4. Around the World in Five Chapters", " Chapter 15. Yali's People", " The histories of Australia and New Guinea", " Chapter 16. How China became Chinese", " The history of East Asia", " Chapter 17. Speedboat to Polynesia", " The history of the Austronesian expansion", " Chapter 18. Hemispheres Colliding", " The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared", " Chapter 19. How Africa became Black", " The history of Africa", "Epilogue. The Future of Human History as a Science", "Acknowledgments", "Further Readings", "Credits", "Index".
In ''Guns, Germs, and Steel,'' an ambitious, highly important book, Jared Diamond asks: How did Pizarro come to be at Cajamarca capturing Atahualpa, instead of Atahualpa in Madrid capturing King Charles I? Why, indeed, did Europeans (and especially western Europeans) and Asians always triumph in their historical conquests of other populations? Why weren't Native Americans, Africans and aboriginal Australians instead the ones who enslaved or exterminated the Europeans?
Jared Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope: a history of the world in less than 500 pages which succeeds admirably, where so many others have failed, in analysing some of the basic workings of cultural process. . . It is willing to simplify and to generalize; and it does reach conclusions, about ultimate as well as proximate causes, that carry great conviction, and that have rarely, perhaps never, been stated so coherently or effectively before. For that reason, and with few reservations, this book may be welcomed as one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years.
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To Esa, Kariniga, Omwai, Paran, Sauakari, Wiwor, and all my other New Guinea friends and teachers - masters of a difficult environment.
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This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. (Preface to the Paperback Edition)
We all know that history has proceeded very differently for peoples from different parts of the globe. (Prologue)
A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C.
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I am thus optimistic that historical studies of human societies can be pursued as scientifically as studies of dinosaurs—and with profit to our own society today, by teaching us what shaped the modern world, and what might shape our future.(Epilogue)
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