Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies book by Jared Diamond
By Jared DiamondGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies book by Jared Diamond
"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 religion—as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war—and 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
Book details
- Paperback
- 480 pages
- English
- 0739467352
- 9780739467350
About Jared Diamond
jared mason diamond is an american scientist, historian, and author best known for his popular science and history books and articles. originally trained i Read More about Jared Diamond
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