Guns, germs and steel: a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
By: Diamond, Jared M
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: United Kingdom -- Vintage Books -- 2017Description: vii, 580pISBN: 9780099302780Subject(s): History | Civilization | Culture diffusion | Social evolutionDDC classification: 303.4 DIA/G Summary: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize. This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science.
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A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Winner of the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize. This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science.