Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
by
Diamond, Jared M.
Title
:
Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
Author
:
Diamond, Jared M.
ISBN
:
9780099302780
Personal Author
:
Diamond, Jared M.
Publication Information
:
London : Vintage, 2005, ©1997.
Physical Description
:
480 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
General Note
:
Originally published: Great Britain: Chatto & Windus, 1997.
Abstract
:
This book abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. By focusing on what ancient peoples had in the way of land, animals and plants, Diamond sheds genuinely new light on the world's most explosive diversions.
Subject Term
:
Civilization -- History.
Culture diffusion.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
Social evolution.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Culture diffusion. (OCoLC)fst00885109
Human beings -- Effect of environment on. (OCoLC)fst00962843
Social evolution. (OCoLC)fst01122456
Genre
:
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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