Explorations: Animal Farm: Long Term History: America:The importance of guns and germs in history
Duration: 2 mins 58 secs
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
In answer to David Dugan, Joel Mokyr in the American mid-west reflects on the importance of guns and germs in altering the balance in the new world. Unintentional bacterial warfare. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-11 17:22 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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