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Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - 9780393354324 - V9780393354324
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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Description for Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 234 x 155. Weight in Grams: 560.

Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for its broadest patterns.

The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the developmental paths of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, ... Read more

A major landmark in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Language
English
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393354324
SKU
V9780393354324
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 8 to 11 working days
Ref
99-28

About Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond is professor of geography at UCLA and author of the best-selling Collapse and The Third Chimpanzee. He is a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the National Medal of Science.

Reviews for Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
"Artful, informative, and delightful.... There is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of a subject, and that is what Jared Diamond has done."
William H. McNeil - New York Review of Books "An ambitious, highly important book."
James Shreeve - New York Times Book Review "A book of remarkable scope, a ... Read more

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