Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies / Jared Diamond ; [with a new afterword about the modern world]

By:

Diamond, Jared M [author]

Material type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780393317558
0393317552

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DDC classification:

22 303.4 DIA

Awards:

Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1998.

Review: This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? In case this question immediately makes you shudder at the thought that you are about to read a racist treatise, you aren't as you will see, the answers to the question don't involve human racial differences at all. The book's emphasis is on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing back the chain of historical causation as far as possible.

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	Gifted Books	Sai University Library General stacks				303.4 DIA (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			G3008

Gifted by Professor Jamshed Bharucha

Afterword dated 2003: cf. p. 426.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-471) and index.

This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? In case this question immediately makes you shudder at the thought that you are about to read a racist treatise, you aren't as you will see, the answers to the question don't involve human racial differences at all. The book's emphasis is on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing back the chain of historical causation as far as possible.

Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1998.

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