Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies

the fates of human societies

W. W. Norton & Company (Apr 01, 1999)

9780393317558

| Paperback

480 pages | 5 x 10 mm | English

$ 17.95 | Value: $ 17.95

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Dewey 303.4 DIA

LC Classification HM206 .D48 1999

LC Control No. 2005284124

Genre

Non-Fiction

Subject

Civilization
Culture Diffusion
Ethnology
Human Beings
Social Evolution

Plot

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.