Pochemu yevropeyskaya, a pozzhe i yevro-atlanticheskaya tsivilizatsii dobilis' samykh grandioznykh uspekhov v istorii chelovechestva? Pochemu imenno Yevropa, snachala samostoyatel'no, a pozdneye — vmeste s Soyedinennymi Shtatami Ameriki, sozdala tot mir, v kotorom my zhivem seychas? Chto predopredelilo mirovuyu gegemoniyu yevropeyskogo mirovozzreniya — promyshlennost', sila oruzhiya ili nechto inoye? I kakoye vliyaniye na mirovozzreniye ne tol'ko otdel'nogo cheloveka, no i tselykh narodov i dazhe ras okazyvayet okruzhayushchaya sreda? Obo vsem etom i mnogom drugom rassuzhdayet v svoyey knige Dzhared Daymond —avtor, udostoyennyy Pulittserovskoy premii.