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Guns, Germs and Steel

By: Vintage Books

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical & Reference Books (Vintage Books)

Last Stocked on 4/22/2020

Product Info

Title
Guns, Germs and Steel
Publisher
Category
Author
jared Diamond
Publish Year
1998
Pages
480
Dimensions
5x7.75x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147789679
Type
Softcover

Description

In this book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized 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.