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Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

by Jared Diamond
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Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the Westhas become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and SteelJared 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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780099302780
ISBN10 0099302780
Series/Work OL276558W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Vintage
Language EN-GB
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general 303.4 Agriculture Antropologi Arkeologi Biological Evolution Ciências humanas Civilisation Civilização (história) Civilization Civilization, history Civilization--history Criticism and interpretation Cultural Evolution Culture diffusion Culturele verschillen Cultuur Diffusion culturelle Diffusion de la culture Economic geography

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