Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies
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Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide. The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. Thirty-two illustrations.
Biological Evolution.
Civilisation -- Histoire.
Civilization -- history.
Civilization.
Cultural Evolution.
Cultuur.
Diffusion culturelle.
Ethnography.
Ethnologie.
Ethnology.
History (form)
History.
Homme -- Influence de l'environnement.
Nonfiction.
Population.
Social Environment.
Social history.
Sociale evolutie.
Évolution sociale.
Diamond, J. M. (2005). Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies. New York, W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Diamond, Jared M.. 2005. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York, W. W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Diamond, Jared M., Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.
MLA Citation (style guide)Diamond, Jared M.. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.
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264 | 1 | |a New York :|b W. W. Norton & Company,|c [2005] | |
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300 | |a 518 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :|b illustrations, maps ;|c 24 cm | ||
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500 | |a "With a new chapter on Japan."--Jacket. | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 466-496) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Prologue. Yali's question : The regionally differing courses of history -- Part One. From Eden to Cajamarca -- Chapter 1. Up to the starting line : What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- Chapter 2. A natural experiment of history : How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Chapter 3. Collision at Cajamarca : Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- Part Two. The rise and spread of food production -- Chapter 4. Farmer power : The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- Chapter 5. History's haves and have-nots : Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- Chapter 6. To farm or not to farm : Causes of the spread of food production -- Chapter 7. How to make an almond : The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Chapter 8. Apples or Indians : Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Chapter 9. Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle : Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Chapter 10. Spacious skies and tilted axes : Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- Part Three. From food to guns, germs, and steel -- Chapter 11. Lethal gift of livestock : The evolution of germs -- Chapter 12. Blueprints and borrowed letters : The evolution of writing -- Chapter 13. Necessity's mother : The evolution of technology -- Chapter 14. From egalitarianism to kleptocracy : The evolution of government and religion -- Part Four. Around the world in five chapters -- Chapter 15. Yali's people : The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- Chapter 16. How China became Chinese : The history of East Asia -- Chapter 17. Speedboat to Polynesia : The history of Austronesian expansion -- Chapter 18. Hemispheres colliding : The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- Chapter 19. How Africa became black : The history of Africa -- Epilogue. The future of human history as a science. Who are the Japanese? -- 2003 afterword : Guns, germs, and steel today. | |
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