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Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" has received a lot of pushback from experts in various disciplines; can you recommend better-received books that deal with the same topic(s)? (lemmy.world)
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Better-received by experts, that is!

Or is the book actually well-regarded on the whole and still worth reading despite the criticisms? I'm not in a position to know, unfortunately, as I'm an uneducated schmuck.

Thank you!

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Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson. Fairly readable and straightforward argument.

Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel. Very ambitious and not a light read. It changed my life.

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