Guns, Germs, and Steel

Fun book, but incredibly stupid once you start to break down his talking points.

It's not wrong, it's just not rigorous. It's like how your high school history essay wouldn't get published in a journal. That doesn't mean it's wrong, it just wouldn't qualify as meeting the standards of a journal. The appeal is that it presents this thesis in a form that is intelligible to people without a PHD in history, unlike scholastic journal articles. Mostly because it was written by someone without a PHD in history.

>>1481609
So it's Dan Carlin: The Book

>>1481582
> it's this thread again

Whoopee

>>1481582
PURE IDEOLOGY

>>1481611
The author still has a PHD. What really rustles people is that it straddles the line between pop history and academics. It's quite academic for pop history. At the same time, it's not academic history and falls into pop history.

>>1481582

Picked this up in the fantasy section of my local bookstore, needs more elves and dwarves.

libshit trash

https://archive.org/stream/fp_Jared_Diamond-Guns_Germs_and_Steel/Jared_Diamond-Guns_Germs_and_Steel_djvu.txt

>In case this question immediately makes you shudder at the thought that you are about to read a racist treatise, you aren't: as you will see, the answers to the question don't involve human racial differences at all.

>in mental ability New Guineans are probably genetically superior to Westerners

He has some sort of whacky agenda. I really don't give a shit what it is, but it is obvious that he lacks a genuine interest in developing an accurate view of history.