Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Автор:Jared M. Diamond Год: 1999 Издание:W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Страниц: 480 ISBN: 0393317552 Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond's thesis sheds light on why Western civilization became hegemonic: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Those who domesticated plants and animals early got a head start on developing writing, government, technology, weapons of war, and immunity to deadly germs.
