Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond

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Author: Jared Diamond
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-07-11
ISBN: 0393061310
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.

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Book Review: Guns, Germs, and Steel
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a very interesting, well-written, easy-to-read book. It answers my questions about why some groups of people developed advanced technology and others developed only primitive technology. It also answers the question: why do some cultures remain hunter-gatherers, even to this day? It explains the domestication of plants and animals and how the availability of these influenced the advancement of people. This book would definitely be of value to history buffs and educators.

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Summary of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller-over 1.5 million copies sold-is 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. 32 illustrations.

Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years.

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