Yes they do. I'm going to look up this book at the library. Jared Diamond books are also good.
He has some excellent angles on things. You have to pick them out of a generally PC background, though.
For example, the spread of various ethnic/linguistic groups across the world, displacing the previous inhabitants, is described in morally neutral tones, as something that just happened.
When exactly the same thing was done by "the white man" rather more recently, suddenly Mr. Diamond saw a moral context to what happened to those displaced. Only Europeans (and, of course, Americans) ever do anything wrong in his world.