GUNS GERMS & STEEL
Author: Jared Diamond
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About This Book"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill GatesWinner 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. Read moreBook DetailsAuthor: Jared DiamondPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Revised ed. edition (6 December 2005)Format: Hardcover – Illustrated, 6 December 2005Language: EnglishPages: 528ISBN: 978-0393061314Dimensions: 16.51 x 4.32 x 24.38 cmWeight: 1 kg 50 g
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About This Book"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill GatesWinner 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...
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Valuable for university students, educators, and scholars seeking authoritative reference material and structured subject mastery.
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- You’ll love this book if you enjoy big, idea-driven history that completely reshapes how you see the world. Jared Diamond connects geography, biology, and culture to explain why civilizations rose and fell—not through simple heroism, but through deep structural forces. This Pulitzer Prize–winning work reads like a gripping intellectual journey while remaining a premium reference you’ll return to again and again for clarity, insight, and perspective on how our modern world was formed.
- Published by W. W. Norton & Company; Revised ed. edition (6 December 2005).
- Language: English.
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About This Book"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill GatesWinner 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...
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