Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
of Jared Diamond
Series: Civilizations Rise and Fall #1
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"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religionâas well as nasty germs and potent weapons of warâand adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 425 pages
- Publisher W.W. Norton & Company
- Publication Date 2005
- First Publication 05/09/97
- Language English
- ISBN 9780739467350
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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