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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world’s peoples, a unified narrative of human life.
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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.
Table of Contents
Prologue: Yali's Question: The regionally differing courses of history
Ch. 1 Up to the Starting Line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.?
Ch. 2 A Natural Experiment of History: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands
Ch. 3 Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain
Ch. 4 Farmer Power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel
Ch. 5 History's Haves and Have-Nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production
Ch. 6 To Farm or Not to Farm: Causes of the spread of food production 104
Ch. 7 How to Make an Almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops
Ch. 8 Apples or Indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants?
Ch. 9 Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated?
Ch. 10 Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents?
Ch. 11 Lethal Gift of Livestock: The evolution of germs
Ch. 12 Blueprints and Borrowed Letters: The evolution of writing
Ch. 13 Necessity's Mother: The evolution of technology
Ch. 14 From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion
Ch. 15 Yali's People: The histories of Australia and New Guinea
Ch. 16 How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia
Ch. 17 Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of the Austronesian expansion 334
Ch. 18 Hemispheres Colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared 354
Ch. 19 How Africa became Black: The history of Africa
Epilogue: The Future of Human History as a Science
Acknowledgments
Further Readings
Credits
# Audio CD
# Publisher: Highbridge Audio; Abridged edition (August 23, 2001)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1565115147
# ISBN-13: 978-1565115149
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