Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel The Fates of Human Societies 20th Anniversary Edition



Jared Diamond (Author)

W. W. Norton & Company (Publisher)



Release Date: 2017-03-07 (20th Anniversary Edition 528pages)

Release Date: 1997-03-09 (1st published hardcover 480pages)

Language: English

ASIN: B06X1CT33R (Kindle version 528pages)

ISBN-10: 0393354326 (Paperback version 494pages)

ISBN-13: 978-0393354324 (Paperback version 494pages)



The 20th Anniversary Edition includes high-resolution images for pictures, maps, and tables. Plus, a 28page "2017 Afterword" was added.



Wikipedia:

The book attempts to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations have survived and conquered others, while arguing against the idea that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral, or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate primarily in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example, written language or the development among Eurasians of resistance to endemic diseases), he asserts that these advantages occurred because of the influence of geography on societies and cultures (for example, by facilitating commerce and trade between different cultures) and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.



Goodreads:

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. 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.



Information:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel 

  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34447296-guns-germs-and-steel 



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