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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.
An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.
Disease, hunger, war, and religion have shaped human existence over many centuries. This volume of RCC Perspectives presents exciting syntheses between research in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
The essay focuses on the scientific approaches emerging from WW II that attempted to identify key risks to food security and to highlight how wartime experiences informed notions of food security within international organizations for many decades to come.