The author attempts to explain why the "West" has ruled the world recently and looks to explain it through archaeological, sociological, and geographical means. He does a great job keeping the book fairly easy to read and keeps the attention of the reader throughout. Ultimately the book comes t...
A fascinating look with due consideration on what "might have been." While this may not be definitive, it certainy does get the conversation going. I think this is a necessary corrective to determinists like Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" which places all the emphasis on geography. If y...
INTRODUCTION 4 “I am reporting to you”: D. Hoffman 2009, p. 11. 5 You may not be: The phrase is regularly attributed to Trotsky but might in fact be just a mistranslation of a paraphrase of a letter he wrote to Albert Goldman in June 1940 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Misat...