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praptak on Nov 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million ...

There is a book that connects large-scale geology with the human-scale history by arguing how the former affects the later. It's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.

curiousdannii on Nov 8, 2012 | [–]

This is a great book. It's fascinating to consider how much of world history has been influenced by where wheat was first cultivated.

i386 on Nov 8, 2012 | [–]

For the lazy, the BBC did a television adaption of it that was quite good

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