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(More customer reviews)This book greatly impressed me with its synthesis of recent evolutionary theory, anthropology, and history. It goes far beyond earlier histories of the genesis of war, presenting a cogent overall hypothesis: that aculture's means of obtaining food determined the character of it conceptionwarfare. He shows how China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mexico, and Peru alldeveloped different notions of warfare that arose directly from theiragricultural economies. This book has much in common with Jared Diamond'smagnificent Guns, Germs, and Steel. I wish that it enjoyed more of thelatter's commercial success.
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