Guns Germs and Steel The Fate of Human Societies

Name: Guns Germs and Steel The Fate of Human Societies
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ISBN: 9780393061314

ISBN-10: 0393061310

ISBN-13: 9780393061314

Edition: 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Jared Diamond

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With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestsellerover 1.5 million copies soldis now a major PBS special. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/17/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.60" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

Jared Diamond has been the national baseball writer for the Wall Street Journal since 2017. Prior to that, he spent a season as the Journal's Yankees beat writer and three seasons as their Mets beat writer. In his current role, he leads the newspaper's baseball coverage. This is his first book.



Prologue : Yali's question



From Eden to Cajamarca



Up to the starting line



A natural experiment of history



Collision at Cajamarca



The rise and spread of food production



Farmer power



History's haves and have-nots



To farm or not to farm



How to make an almond



Apples or Indians



Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle



Spacious skies and tilted axes



From food to guns, germs, and steel



Lethal gift of livestock



Blueprints and borrowed letters



Necessity's mother



From egalitarianism to kleptocracy



Around the world in five chapters



Yali's people



How China became Chinese



Speedboat to Polynesia



Hemispheres colliding



How Africa became black


Epilogue : the future of human history as a science


Who are the Japanese?


2003 afterword : guns, germs, and steel today