REVISITING THE GUNS PART IN ” GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL”<\/b><\/p>\n
The Jared Diamond<\/strong> book Guns, Germs and Steel<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>offered a geographic-latitudinal thesis to explain ” the success of the West over the Rest”. Historian Philip Hoffman<\/strong> <\/a>of Caltech<\/a><\/strong> considers a different, evolutionary, explanation – the military sector of preindustrial Europe was the most dynamic, productive and expanding part of the Western economy<\/a>(PDF).<\/p>\n (Hat tip to Ralph Luker<\/strong> of Cliopatria<\/a><\/strong> for alerting me to the online papers <\/a>of The Historical Society<\/strong> <\/a>conference)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" REVISITING THE GUNS PART IN ” GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL” The Jared Diamond book Guns, Germs and Steel offered a geographic-latitudinal thesis to explain ” the success of the West over the Rest”. Historian Philip Hoffman of Caltech considers a different, evolutionary, explanation – the military sector of preindustrial Europe was the most dynamic, productive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}