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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
96-37068 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780393317558 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Transcribing agency |
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050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
HM206.D48 1997 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
303.4-- |
Item number |
dc21 |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Diamond, Jared |
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4246 |
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Guns, Germs & Steel |
Remainder of title |
: The Fates of Human Societies |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
/ Jared Diamond |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
NY; London; |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
W. W. Norton & Company; |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1997 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
496p; |
Dimensions |
24x15cm |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
In 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 world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide. The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. |
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
Language note |
English |
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HN1-995 Social history and conditions. |
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4247 |
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Koha item type |
Book |
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Library of Congress Classification |