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Title:
Guns, Germs and Steel
Genre:
Documentary
History
Science
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Binding:
Audiobook
Edition:
1st
Type of Book:
Non-Fiction
Number of Pages:
480
Date Added:
2018-06-26 17:21:33
Synopsis:
"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 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 takes us on a captivating journey through time and space. He convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors, like a master puppeteer, 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.
This book, which has won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California’s Gold Medal, is a testament to its profound impact and scholarly merit.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller, The Global Account of the Rise of Civilization 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 takes us on a captivating journey through time and space. He convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors, like a master puppeteer, 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.
This book, which has won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California’s Gold Medal, is a testament to its profound impact and scholarly merit.
Author:
Jared Diamond
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Publisher:
Vintage
Barcode:
9780224038096
Country:
United Kingdom
Publication Date:
1997-01-01
Publication Year:
1997
Number of Copies:
1
Language:
English
Special Edition:
Yes
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-03-14
Date Added:
2018-06-26 17:21:33
