Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Ridenhour Book Prize (2007) Gaudelli blends theory and practice

Gaudelli blends theory and practice to provide both an overview of GCE as well as examining current efforts to develop more globally-conscious classrooms

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Ridenhour Book Prize (2007) Gaudelli blends theory and practiceExplaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather