Pages: 464
Genre:Non-Fiction
Back Cover Synopsis: "Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, already a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life."
Review: This was required reading for one of my grad school classes about globalization. The concept is interesting enough, and some of the chapters follow suite, but on the whole, I was unimpressed. I felt Diamond was a broken record. He repeated the same information through the entire book and even into the epilogue. I also do not think he answered all the questions he brought up throughout the book.
Some chapters were very interesting--particularly the one about the Spaniards defeating the Incas...very brutal history there. It may be a good source for learning more about globalization, but it wasn't exactly pulling me in.
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