Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
ISBN-13:
9780393061314
ISBN-10:
0393061310
Edition:
Revised ed.
Author:
Jared Diamond Ph.D.
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
528 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780393061314
ISBN-10:
0393061310
Edition:
Revised ed.
Author:
Jared Diamond Ph.D.
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
528 pages
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (ISBN-13: 9780393061314 and ISBN-10: 0393061310), written by authors
Jared Diamond Ph.D., was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2005.
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"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."―Bill Gates
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrationsWe would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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