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Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

Title: Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond.
Author: Diamond, Jared M.
Publication: New York : Norton, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

518 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Note

"With a new chapter on Japan." -- book jacket

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-496) and index.

Contents

Prologue : Yali's question -- Pt. 1. From Eden to Cajamarca -- Ch. 1. Up to the starting line -- Ch. 2. A natural experiment of history -- Ch. 3. Collision at Cajamarca -- Pt. 2. The rise and spread of food production -- Ch. 4. Farmer power -- Ch. 5. History's haves and have-nots -- Ch. 6. To farm or not to farm -- Ch. 7. How to make an almond -- Ch. 8. Apples or Indians -- Ch. 9. Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle -- Ch. 10. Spacious skies and tilted axes -- Pt. 3. From food to guns, germs, and steel -- Ch. 11. Lethal gift of livestock -- Ch. 12. Blueprints and borrowed letters -- Ch. 13. Necessity's mother -- Ch. 14. From egalitarianism to kleptocracy -- Pt. 4. Around the world in five chapters -- Ch. 15. Yali's people -- Ch. 16. How China became Chinese -- Ch. 17. Speedboat to Polynesia -- Ch. 18. Hemispheres colliding -- Ch. 19. How Africa became black -- Epilogue : the future of human history as a science -- Who are the Japanese? -- 2003 afterword : guns, germs, and steel today.

ISBN

0393061310
9780393061314

LCCN

2005284261

OCLC

ocm60820242
SCSB-13566495

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries