Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. It encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is Jared Diamond’s follow-up and has been recommended many time on Five Books.
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