Guns, Germs And Steel. A Short History Of Everybody For The Last 13,000 Years

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: Reprint

Description: 480 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. An Ambitious Synthesis Of History, Biology, Ecology And Linquistics, Guns, Germs And Steel Is One Of The Most Important And Humane Works Of Popular Science.

Publishers Description: GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL is nothing less than an enquiry into the reasons why Europe and the Near East became the cradle of modern societies-eventually giving rise to capitalism and science, the dominant forces in our contemporary world-and why, until modern times. Africa, Australasia and the Americas lagged behind in technological sophistication and in political and military power. The native peoples of those continents are still suffering the consequences. Diamond shows definitively that the origins of this inequality in human fortunes cannot be laid at the door of race or inherent features of the people themselves. He argues that the inequality stems instaed from the differing natural resources available to the people of each continent.

ISBN: 9780099302780