Very interesting documentary. On the origins of ‘civilized life’ and why only certain regions of the world and certain established their global domination which the others could not.
Resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Diamond
"Meaning to read more": What Jane Austen's characters read (and why), part 4
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[image: The Reader by Marguerite Gerard 1786]
*The Reader* by Marguerite Gérard and Jean Honoré Fragonard, c. 1786. Image
source: The Fitzwilliam Museum, C...
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