Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (20th Anniversary Edition)
Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history.—Bill GatesIn 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 wo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-60929-5
- EAN: 9780393609295
- Produktnummer: 34248707
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 103'281 KB
Über den Autor
Jared Diamond is professor of geography at UCLA and author of the best-selling Collapse and The Third Chimpanzee. He is a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the National Medal of Science.
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