Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns.

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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.
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  • PublisherTurtleback Books
  • Publication date1999
  • ISBN 10 061318114X
  • ISBN 13 9780613181143
  • BindingLibrary Binding
  • Number of pages480
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