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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Huma..., Diamond, J
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- Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Book Title
- Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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- 0393038912
- EAN
- 9780393038910
- Binding
- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 19970317
- Release Title
- Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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- Diamond, J
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- 1997
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
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- English
- Publication Name
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
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- 241mm
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- WW Norton & Co
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- 165mm
- Subject
- Science
- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
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A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., 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.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
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Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Science
Publication Year
1997
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Textbook
Number of Pages
448 Pages
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241mm
Item Width
165mm
Item Weight
886g
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