Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years

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Title:

Author:

Diamond, Jared M.

ISBN:

9780099302780

Personal Author:

Diamond, Jared M.

Publication Information:

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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Summary

'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what can it teach us about our current crisis?

Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians.

An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that can provide expert insight into our modern world.

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