Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies

English

ISBN: 0393317552

EAN: 9780393317558

Category: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural/Social Science / Sociology / General/History / Civilization/Science / Environmental Science/

Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Release Date: 04/30/1999

Synopsis: 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 had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed 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 Californias Gold Medal.

Awards: Aventis Prizes for Science Books – null  California Book Awards – null  New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null  Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science – null  Pulitzer Prize – null  Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (formerly Aventis Prizes for Science Books) – null 

Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.14 inches

Width: 0.61 inches

Length: 0.93 inches

Weight: 20.28 oz

Pages: 496