Guns, Germs, And Steel
Trade paperback edition in good condition.
“Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.”
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller, Guns, Germs, and Steel is the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.
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 dismantles racially based theories of human history.
Trade paperback edition in good condition.
“Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.”
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller, Guns, Germs, and Steel is the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.
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 dismantles racially based theories of human history.
Trade paperback edition in good condition.
“Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.”
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller, Guns, Germs, and Steel is the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.
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 dismantles racially based theories of human history.
ISBN 0-393-31755-2
Jared Diamond
1998
Pulitzer Prize Winner