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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Author Jared M. Diamond
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
PublicationDate 1999-04-01

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

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.

Author Jared M. Diamond
Binding Paperback
EAN 9780393317558
ISBN 0393317552
Label W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
NumberOfItems 1
NumberOfPages 496
ProductGroup Book
PublicationDate 1999-04-01
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
SKU 1200751848
Studio W. W. Norton & Company
Title Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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