Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies /
Diamond, Jared M
Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies / Jared Diamond ; [with a new afterword about the modern world] - New York : W.W. Norton & Co. 1999 - 494 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24cm
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.
9780393317558 0393317552
Social evolution
Civilization--History
Ethnology
Human beings--Effect of environment on
Culture diffusion
Evolution (Biology)
Nature--Effect of human beings on
303.4 / DIA
Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies / Jared Diamond ; [with a new afterword about the modern world] - New York : W.W. Norton & Co. 1999 - 494 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24cm
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.
9780393317558 0393317552
Social evolution
Civilization--History
Ethnology
Human beings--Effect of environment on
Culture diffusion
Evolution (Biology)
Nature--Effect of human beings on
303.4 / DIA