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Guns, Germs & Steel (Record no. 4236)

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LC control number 96-37068
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International Standard Book Number 9780393317558
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Classification number HM206.D48 1997
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Personal name Diamond, Jared
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Title Guns, Germs & Steel
Remainder of title : The Fates of Human Societies
Statement of responsibility, etc. / Jared Diamond
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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
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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.
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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.
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Language note English
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Topical term or geographic name entry element HN1-995 Social history and conditions.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Social Sciences SAF Reference Library SAF Reference Library 07/09/2024   HN1-995 42.376 4236 07/09/2024 07/09/2024 Book

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