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(P/B) GUNS GERMS AND STEEL - THE FATES OF HUMAN SOCIETIES

(H/B) GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

THE FATES OF HUMAN SOCIETIES

DIAMOND JARED
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3115-0178




Παρουσίαση

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, 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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Prologue: Yali's Question
The Regionally Differing Courses of History
PART ONE: FROM EDEN TO CAJAMARCA
Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line
What Happened on all the Continents before 11,000 B.C.?
Chapter 2: A Natural Experiment of History
How Geography Molded Societies on Polynesian Islands
Chapter 3: Collision at Cajamarca
Why the Inca Emperor Atahuallpa did not Capture King Charles I of Spain
PART TWO: THE RISE AND SPREAD OF FOOD PRODUCTION
Chapter 4: Farmer Power
The Roots of Guns, Germs, and Steel
Chapter 5: History's Haves and Have-Nots
Geographic Differences in the Onset of Food Production
Chapter 6: To Farm or Not to Farm
Causes of the Spread of Food Production
Chapter 7: How to Make an Almond
The Unconscious Development of Ancient Crops
Chapter 8: 8 Apples or Indians
Why did Peoples of Some Regions Fail to Domesticate Plants?
Chapter 9: Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle
Why were most Big Wild Mammal Species Never Domesticated?
Chapter 10: Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes
Why did Food Production Spread at Different Rates on Different Continents?
PART THREE: FROM FOOD TO GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
Chapter 11: Lethal Gift of Livestock
The Evolution of Germs
Chapter 12: Blueprints and Borrowed Letters
The Evolution of Writing
Chapter 13: Necessity's Mother
The Evolution of Technology
Chapter 14: From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy
The Evolution of Government and Religion
PART FOUR: AROUND THE WORLD IN FIVE CHAPTERS
Chapter 15: Yali's People
The Histories of Australia and New Guinea
Chapter 16: How China became Chinese
The History of East Asia
Chapter 17: Speedboat to Polynesia
The History of the Austronesian Expansion
Chapter 18: Hemispheres Colliding
The Histories of Eurasia and the Americas Compared
Chapter 19: How Africa became Black
The History of Africa
Epilogue: The Future of Human History as a Science
Acknowledgments
Further Readings
Credits
Index
Λεπτομέρειες
ISBN139780393061314
ΕκδότηςW.W. NORTON & COMPANY
Σειρά
Χρονολογία ΈκδοσηςΔεκέμβριος 2005
Αριθμός σελίδων512
Διαστάσεις24x18
Συγγραφέας/Δημιουργός (Ελληνικά)ΝΤΑΙΑΜΟΝΤ ΤΖΑΡΕΝΤ
Κωδικός Πολιτείας3115-0178
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