ITT: essential literature

>>1753870
>GG&S
:^)

>>1753879
What?

>>1753890
Sorry if you were being genuine.

Guns Germs and Steel is a common bait suggestion here.

>>1753895
Why? It's insightful, it won the pulitzer prize

>>1753907
Ha

>>1753907
Most anthropologists say it's shit.

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>>1753870
>diamond

>>1753907
If it helps you, it was written by an ornithologist with no professional degree in history.

>>1753895
>>1753945
Stop getting baited so easily.

Sage. But I'm sure this shit thread will get 300 posts anyway.

>>1753870
ISHYGDDT

1491 is much better on the "how the Americas fell to Europe" front. And it also has a ton about precolombian civilization.

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>>1753907
>we shouldn't use the term civilization because it implies Sub Saharan Africans living in mudhuts and carrying out a primitive lifestyle are lesser people than Westerners and that's offensive

>>1753879
>>1753895
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>>1753959
itt: faggots who have never read the book and are just regurgitating opinions in order to fit in

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>>1753870

Ok, lets avoid GG$S for now.
What else could you reccomend as essential?

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>>1755914
1 and 6 are wrong, over 1000s of years obstacles like the himalayas aren't a big deal and disease did play an overwhelming role.

8 is partly wrong, evolution isn't that simple so both sides of the argument are wrong.

The rest is true though, Guns, Germs and Steel is riddled with speculation, as far as proving evil white supremacists goes, it is an embarrassment and the liberals in this thread bending over backwards to defend this novella are incredibly spooked.

>>1755884
Fuck off jared

>>1756286
Thanks m8

>>1756959
god tier

>>1756348
"liberals" hate GGS because it actually compares civilizations and tries to answer why some ended up better than others based on neutral scientific universals. The "better" and rejection of the post-modernist anti-enlightenment social narratives over materialist science are particularly triggering to modern hardcore liberals.

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>>1753870

Top kek. I woulnd't even consider GG&S babi-tier.