Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Genre,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Diamond
Author First Name:
Jared
Genre:
HISTORY
Pages:
480
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
ISBN 10:
0393317552
ISBN 13:
9780393317558
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company
Date Published:
1999-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Description
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 California's Gold Medal.
