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First, if you taped this documentary off of PBS, withhold your tape as the “extras” here are exiguous more than a few facts spiffed up graphically over a world blueprint.
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Diamond’s thesis in “Guns, Germs, and Steel” is that geography, which governs climate which, in turn, governs indigenous species, is the reason for the unequal distribution of wealth in the world today. In short, Diamond is focused on why the Europeans conquered so distinguished of the world.
There are 3 one-hour episodes in this series. The first is concerned with why agriculture took occupy in parts of the world and hints at the benefits it bestowed in developing ample, complex societies. The second episode is concerned with how these grand complex (European) societies were able to effect weapons (guns and steel) to conquer noteworthy of the rest of the world. Germs were an unintended weapon against indigenous people that may have been the most righteous. The last installment is concerned with another design to test the “guns, germs, and steel” hypothesis using the European march into Africa as test material. Here, climate (created by geography) creates indigenous germs that the Europeans can’t handle. Nevertheless, guns and steel (apparently) calm collect the day.
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This documentary is a reasonable, though somewhat superficial, overview of Diamond’s thesis. The quandary is, however, that it is somewhat glib and fails to collect to the “Ken Burns” gold standard. There is worthy repetition of the “guns, germs, and steel” theme from episode to episode so that, even within the 3 hours, there should have been room to hint at some speculation on simple questions that the thesis itself invites. For example, there is essentially no mention of China (except the standard reference to gunpowder being developed there) . If China had a complex civilization, why did they kill up in isolation? It is never mentioned, for example, *why* the Chinese, having developed gunpowder never musty it in conquest. (The neglect of China is particularly exciting as Diamond does deal with some of these issues in his book.) Another example is the tropic climate theme: the Americas had a tropical climate as well, complete with tropical germs and yet that did not tiring, the spread of European conquests there. Finally, geography is presented on a primarily 2-dimensional world device scale, not accounting for crucial issues like climate changes at altitude or snappy transportation as a result of internal rivers within a continent.
Lastly, while this is really Diamond’s explain, it would have been primary to have a few scholarly, dissenting opinions on why Diamond’s theories haven’t been universally embraced. As it is, the documentary presents the “guns, germs, and steel” theory so forcefully, one is left to wonder why it took 30 years for someone as shimmering as Diamond to near up with a location of seemingly simple ideas. The elegance of Diamond’s theory is precisely because it shows how simple issues describe to the complexities of human history, but the documentary completely neglects competing ideas in this arena (and there are many) .
It’s nice that National Geographic is introducing these spirited ideas to the public at stout, it’s objective a shame that such weighty material didn’t construct a deeper program.
Jared Diamond, a famed professor of physiology and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, has devoted distinguished of his life trying to understand man’s impact on nature, through critical, often pioneering, work on bird species diversity in Current Guinea, and the extinctions of endemic species of plants and animals in the aftermath of human colonization of the South Pacific by the ancestors of the Melanesians and especially, Polynesians. For this top-notch work he has earned numerous accolades, including - if my memory is upright - membership in the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a expedient writer and a mesmerizing lecturer; qualities which are shown in big abundance throughout this National Geographic miniseries devoted to his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Guns, Germs and Steel”.
Originally published serve in 1997, “Guns, Germs and Steel” posed the engaging hypothesis that Western civilization’s preeminence is due to mere happenstance, simply because its ancestral Fertile Crescent civilizations were lucky to have the richest abundance of potentially domesticated grains and animals. The eventual triumph of Western civilization is due to its successful colonization of the temperate regions of the globe, via its rich abundance in domesticated grains and animals, advanced weaponry and technology, and the accidental spread of virulent, often deadly, diseases associated with domesticated animals such as pigs and sheep.
This National Georgraphic miniseries is a somewhat successful exploration of Jared Diamond’s work and the ideas described in “Guns, Germs and Steel”. The first hour-long episode, devoted to domestication of grains and animals, is the most successful of the three. It is followed immediately by a second episode describing the clash of Western civilization with an indigenous, technologically advanced, American civilization - the Inkas - in 1532 and 1533 - in which the Spanish conquistadors succeeded only because an Dilapidated World disease - smallpox - had decimated the Inka population in 1531. The third episode is a more contemporary test of Diamond’s hypothesis, area in Sub-Saharan Africa, but yielding a result not nearly as certain cleave as the Spanish invasion of the Inkan Empire. Unexcited, despite the mixed quality of these episodes, I can recommend this DVD spot as a visual introduction to Diamond’s hypothesis; an ecologically-oriented, testable hypothesis which was virtually unknown to anthropologists and other social scientists prior to the book’s unique publication.
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