Guns, Germs, and Steel¶
Diamond, J. (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W. W. Norton.
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Primes¶
- Anna Karenina Principle
- In ecology and species domestication — Diamond's original case — only a small fraction of large mammal candidates were ever domesticated, because successful domestication requires satisfying all of a handful of conditions (tractable diet, fast growth, captive breeding, manageable disposition, calm confinement, dominance-hierarchy social structure), and each non-domesticated species fails at least one.
This sourceChapter 9 ("Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle") is the origin of the principle and the domestication argument: a candidate species is domesticable only if it satisfies all of six necessary conditions (diet, growth rate, captive breeding, disposition, calm temperament, herd/dominance social structure), and fails if it misses any one.
- In ecology and species domestication — Diamond's original case — only a small fraction of large mammal candidates were ever domesticated, because successful domestication requires satisfying all of a handful of conditions (tractable diet, fast growth, captive breeding, manageable disposition, calm confinement, dominance-hierarchy social structure), and each non-domesticated species fails at least one.
- Great Man Theory
- William James's "Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment" formulated the debate in explicitly philosophical terms: granting that great individuals exist and shape history does not settle whether they are products of their environments or forces independent of them.
This sourceArgues environmental/geographic differences (continental axis orientation, domesticable biota, resulting technological-epidemiological packages), not the genius or will of individuals, explain differential development; explicitly against great-man and racial-superiority accounts.
- William James's "Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment" formulated the debate in explicitly philosophical terms: granting that great individuals exist and shape history does not settle whether they are products of their environments or forces independent of them.
- Historical Determinism
- Jared Diamond's geographic determinism (Guns, Germs, and Steel, 1997), which attributes the global distribution of power to continental geography and biogeography;
This sourceArgues that continental axis orientation, biogeographic endowments of domesticable plants and animals, and resulting technological-epidemiological packages determine the broad pattern of intercontinental conquest — explicitly against great-man and cultural-superiority accounts.
- Jared Diamond's geographic determinism (Guns, Germs, and Steel, 1997), which attributes the global distribution of power to continental geography and biogeography;
- Microhistory vs. Macrohistory
- Historiography (Ginzburg's and Levi's microhistorical school, programmatically articulated in Ginzburg & Poni (1979), Braudel's Annales-school and Diamond's (1997) environmental macrohistorical traditions),
This sourceArgues that continental axis orientation, biogeographic endowments of domesticable plants and animals, and resulting technological-epidemiological packages determine the broad pattern of intercontinental conquest — explicitly against great-man and cultural-superiority accounts.
- Historiography (Ginzburg's and Levi's microhistorical school, programmatically articulated in Ginzburg & Poni (1979), Braudel's Annales-school and Diamond's (1997) environmental macrohistorical traditions),
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