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I am on page 20 and I already love this book.
I was drawn to read it by the persistent critique of J. Diamond works and indeed some discussion about his vision of history is reported in the first chapter here.
To make it short: the book promises to change the way we understand human history and strongly criticizes modern authors who have proposed an old and not fact-based version of it (Diamond being among them).
— Feb 07, 2026 02:26AM
I was drawn to read it by the persistent critique of J. Diamond works and indeed some discussion about his vision of history is reported in the first chapter here.
To make it short: the book promises to change the way we understand human history and strongly criticizes modern authors who have proposed an old and not fact-based version of it (Diamond being among them).
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Donato Colangelo
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Interesting discussion about egalitarianism vs hierarchy in society. Bohem conclusion to his research about the first human societies land on the same conclusion other researchers arrived at before him: humans were egalitarian (“political”) animals, up to the discovery of agriculture. From that point on, inequality became a defining character of our society.
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Donato Colangelo
is on page 45 of 720
Ok, this book will surely destroy some key foundations of my understanding of recent history. I had no idea that interactions with the Americans before Enlightenment provided some (if not many, we will see as I read further) defining elements of such movement, one of the most momentous shifts in human history.
But, again, the goal of the book is to rethink human history, so…
— Feb 07, 2026 08:04AM
But, again, the goal of the book is to rethink human history, so…
