Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Rilegato

Diamond, Jared

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0393038912 ISBN 13: 9780393038910

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

Product Description

Book by Diamond Jared M

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393038912
• ISBN 13: 9780393038910
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 480
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Nachyta Pederzini; 0039 0516047011; n.pederzini@terminaldistribuzione.com; ; Via Bruno Buozzi, 24/26,; Granarolo dell'Emilia BO,; 40057; Italia