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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitled A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years in Britain) is a 1997 transdisciplinary non-fiction book by the American author Jared Diamond.
- Jared Diamond
- 1997
May 9, 1997 · A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's ...
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Apr 1, 1999 · A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.
- 1997
- Jared Diamond
Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population.
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Mar 7, 2017 · Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition) Jared Diamond. W. W. Norton & Company, Mar 7, 2017 - History - 528 pages. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize • New York...
A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. It is a work rich in dramatic revelations that will fascinate readers even as it challenges conventional wisdom.
Watch a three-part series that explores the environmental factors shaping human history and global inequality. Based on Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the show features dramatic reconstructions, documentary footage and expert interviews.
