Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies /
Diamond, Jared M.
Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond. - New York : W.W. Norton, [2003], c1999. - 494, [2] p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover. Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 442-471) and index.
Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science -- The future of human history of a science. 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today.
1440 L Lexile
Pulitzer Prize for General NonFiction, 1998.
9780393317558 (pbk.) : $18.95 0393317552 (pbk.) : $18.95
Social evolution.
Civilization--History.
Ethnology.
Human beings--Effect of environment on.
Culture diffusion.
HM206 / D48 2003
303.4
Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond. - New York : W.W. Norton, [2003], c1999. - 494, [2] p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover. Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 442-471) and index.
Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science -- The future of human history of a science. 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today.
1440 L Lexile
Pulitzer Prize for General NonFiction, 1998.
9780393317558 (pbk.) : $18.95 0393317552 (pbk.) : $18.95
Social evolution.
Civilization--History.
Ethnology.
Human beings--Effect of environment on.
Culture diffusion.
HM206 / D48 2003
303.4