Overall prospective In the book of “Guns Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” written by Jared Diamond, Diamond writes about his prospective of how it is that the world developed, and why it is that it developed like that. Diamond basically wrote about how he believes that “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.”(Diamond) While in the article of Technology and Culture written by Suzanne Moon, she agrees with Diamond’s thesis/argument. In that it isn’t biological that it is environmental and geographical. In the article The World According to Jared Diamond written by J.R. McNeill, he seems to agree with Diamond but yet disagree in partial of his work. His partial disagreement is that he isn’t from the background of history and that he is applying it all in a mathematical form which is a different way to look at it.
The Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond, was written to answer the question of why history took its toll differently on different continents over the last 13 thousand years. Diamond chose the seemingly direct title that he did, but he meant for a different view of each word. The “Guns” piece represents the weapons that nations were provided that could increase their military superiority. The “Germs” aspect symbolizes the Eurasian diseases that weakened the local populations that had no immunity. Finally the “Steel” comes from the different powerful and centralized government that promoted nationalism and military strength.
BookRags Student Essay Summary and Criticism of "Guns, Germs and Steel" For the online version of Summary and Criticism of "Guns, Germs and Steel" Essay, including complete copyright information, please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/essay-2006/6/12/55716/4084/ Copyright Information ©2000-2012 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Summary and Criticism of "Guns, Germs and Steel" Essay In his book, Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond sets forth a thesis, "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among people themselves" in order to answer Yali's question Yali, a New Guinea native had met Diamond while he worked in New Guinea. One day as they were walking he asked a seemingly simple question "Why is it that you white people have developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea while we black people developed so little cargo of our own?" To answer this, Diamond proposed another question to Yali that would form the basis for his book "...why were Europeans, rather than African or native Americans the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?" Throughout the novel Diamond proves his thesis by showing a chain reaction of events that led to some areas of the world being more prosperous and technologically advanced than others.
Looking into the geography of Europeans they were able to easily advance with their crops and production and the domestication of animals therefore producing a more stable society above all others so as they advanced they were able to take what they know and conquer neighboring lands. 3. What do you think about the film overall? Overall the film was a great way to take a look back at how many of the different cultures and individuals began to shape history. The start of development through geography was interesting to learn more about.
This gives them an incentive to colonize areas where there are large amounts of raw material instead of just paying for the materials. After colonization, they now have the ability to take these materials back to the homeland to produce their product. Through imperialism, they cut out the middle man. Large consumer markets are also needed. Imperialism allowed industrialized countries to spread their influence to the weaker countries they conquered.
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In Book Six of On War, Clausewitz asserts, that CoG is physical: ‘…the real key to enemy’s country is usually his army’ (Smith, 2004 p. 136). Thus, he identifies the enemy’s army as the pre-eminent candidate for what one today could describe as operational-level CoG (Lee, 1999 p. 5). Nevertheless, it is important to emphasize that, Clausewitz cautions, that the description of the con-cept of CoG in Book Six, is incomplete and the revised idea will be offered in Book Eight (Lee, 1999 p. 6). Hence, it is probably safe to assume, that the CoG concept, explained in Book Eight and described below, is his conclusive
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