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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
W. W. Norton
April 1999
480 pages ISBN: 0393317552 EAN: 9780393317558 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 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.
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