[lbo-talk] vaca reading

[Dissenting Wren]

Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism
William H. McNeill, Plagues and Peoples
William H. McNeill, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society 
since A.D. 1000

----- Original Message ----
From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
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Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 11:31:27 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] vaca reading


> It is an amateurish jumping into a discipline without any attention to
> the many already existing works in this important area of knowledge.

Such as ... ? I'll admit to a near-complete ignorance of prior attempts to
tackle the problem Diamond addresses:

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