So far, Jared Diamond has demonstrated how geography favoured one group of people – Europeans – endowing them with agents of conquest ahead of their rivals around the world. Guns, germs and steel ...

Voiceover: Modern history has been shaped by conquest – the conquest of the world by Europeans. The Conquistadors led the way. A few hundred men came to the New World and decimated the native ...

"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover. Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496]. Contents Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up ...

"Guns, Germs, and Steel" regularly tops the reading lists of high school students across the country. The award-winning book, by noted scholar and college professor Jared Diamond, examines some of the ...

First published in the United States by W.W.Norton and Company, on March 1 1997, Guns, Germs and Steel was initially subtitled ‘The Fates of Human Societies.’ Within a few months, this subtitle had ...

Jared Diamond was a biologist studying birds in New Guinea in 1972 when a local politician asked him a simple question: Why does the white man have so many possessions while New Guineans have so few?

A PBS documentary concerning Jared Diamond's theory on why there is such disparity between those who have advanced technology and those who still live primitively. He argues it is due to the ...