Bibliograph

Guns, germs and steel, a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years, Jared Diamond

Type

Label

Guns, germs and steel, a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years, Jared Diamond

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsplatesportraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Guns, germs and steel

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jared Diamond

Series statement

Patterns of life seriesVintage classics

Sub title

a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years

Summary

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science

Target audience

adult

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