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>geography is the most important factor in determining civilizational outcomes
Why is this book controversial? Have you even read it? The thesis could not be any more clear-eyed. What I don’t understand is how it is attacked from the left (under claims of “Eurocentricity”) and from the right (who feel it isn’t Eurocentric enough?”. I really can’t fucking understand it.

Europe conquered the world. This is a fact. Diamond takes this fact and works backwards to explain it. He is literally providing the thesis for WHY white Europeans are superior and yet some people read it to conclude “he’s saying white Europeans are nothing special”. NO: he is explaining WHY white Europeans are so special. Fuck me how can this book be so misunderstood?

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Thoughts?

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Discuss.

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I'm about to read pic related. Recommend me something better /lit/.

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If I read a book in train commutes that are 5 to 25 minutes long can I still get all the pseud cred from reading it? I read picrelated in this way, of course for the pseud cred because I thought it was boring and could easily have been summarised.

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Guys, I finished Manufacturing Consent and Guns Germs and Steel today. Have you read them? Why not? If you haven't read them you are a pleb

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

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i think this book might be of value to someone here

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Guns Germs and Steel.
Asked /pol/ was to come here

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x88Z5txBc7w

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When this book is mentioned in a Geography class, it will provoke a lecture about how the author's argument is racist

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Are there any non-fiction books that you consider essential readings?

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how historically accurate is the book Zealot:The life and times of Jesus of Nazareth? Or is it skewed/biased to meet some political end? Thanks

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