Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared M. Diamond (Author)
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.

• Rank: #1489 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.43" h x 6.13" w x 9.32" l, 1.31 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

• ISBN13: 9780393317558
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(030527) Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2005. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 518 pages. Very Good in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Text has some odor from an aromatic pipe tobacco. Am evolutionary biologist dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. A world history that is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life ISBN: 0393061310 (Civilization, Ethnology, Culture Diffusion)

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