Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Very Misleading

This is one of the most narrow analyses of history that I have ever read. The author deals with an extremely selective range of history and rather than seeking answers to the question posed, the book is a pulpit for the author's personal opinions which are passed of as historical inevitibility. It is the worst kind of history - result based and biased. The author seems to endorse every historian prior to 1940 - basically colonial, while dismissing any modern analysis as tainted by political correctness. Lots of facts, no analysis and a mere expression of opinion- a much better book on the topic is Jared Diamond's Guns Germs and Steel, which takes a much broader view and offers scientific fact based causes rather than vague "culture" for disparity in the world.