As aforementioned, Diamond attempts to answer the questions of why societies differentiate on different parts of the world in his novel, Guns, Germs and Steel. In the words of Diamond, “GGS seeks to understand the broad pattern of intercontinental differences among human societies, from the end of the Pleistocene to Columbus’s voyage in AD 1492 (2003, p.829). Throughout his book he makes analyzations that are worth noting and his novel is viewed as a classic example of determinism, despite he, himself, viewing the term as “baggage-laden” and a reason for people to “refuse to consider how geography actually does influence human societies” (2003, p.830). His book’s straightforward thesis of “societies are different” as a result of his outlined geographical reasons, is regarded as too simple by the likes of geographers like Mark Cowell, Andrew Sluyter, Paul Robbins and Lucy Jarosz in their contributions to an Antipode journal, yet they still bring up the matter that societal development is still worthy of an explanation. Nonetheless, the involvement of the physical environment within societal development at its commencement is
As aforementioned, Diamond attempts to answer the questions of why societies differentiate on different parts of the world in his novel, Guns, Germs and Steel. In the words of Diamond, “GGS seeks to understand the broad pattern of intercontinental differences among human societies, from the end of the Pleistocene to Columbus’s voyage in AD 1492 (2003, p.829). Throughout his book he makes analyzations that are worth noting and his novel is viewed as a classic example of determinism, despite he, himself, viewing the term as “baggage-laden” and a reason for people to “refuse to consider how geography actually does influence human societies” (2003, p.830). His book’s straightforward thesis of “societies are different” as a result of his outlined geographical reasons, is regarded as too simple by the likes of geographers like Mark Cowell, Andrew Sluyter, Paul Robbins and Lucy Jarosz in their contributions to an Antipode journal, yet they still bring up the matter that societal development is still worthy of an explanation. Nonetheless, the involvement of the physical environment within societal development at its commencement is