At 04:53 PM Thursday 9/14/2006, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
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Hmm. That didn't work. Lemme try something else:
Guns, Germs, and Steel: A National Geographic Presentation
The Haves and Have-nots
10:00 PM, 1 hr
Thu 09/14/2006
WBIQ 10
(= the local PBS affiliate. "Check your local listings.")
Documentary/Other
TVPG, English, 2005
The conclusion explores how the European colonization of Africa in
the 19th century was "built on the ruins of African civilization," as
narrator Peter Coyote puts it. Europeans used their superiority in
arms and transport to conquer almost at will and force natives to
abandon their traditional, agrarian ways of life. As a result, they
lost the immunity to tropical diseases they had built up over
millennia, and endemic poverty is its legacy. Jared Diamond hosts.
(Thought some might be interested in light of the current discussion. FWIW.)
-- Ronn! :)
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