GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL
The Fates of Human Societies
Paperback
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Attempting to provide a "short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years," this Pulitzer Prize–winning work centers around the provocative question of why human development proceeded at different rates on different continents.
As author Jared Diamond puts it, “why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?” His deftly reasoned answer draws on fascinating archaeological, anthropological, and environmental evidence, and offers a convincing refutation of racially-based theories of history. Illustrated with maps, charts, and black-and-white photographs.
| Copyright | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Norton |
| Pages | 494 |
| Edition | 20th anniversary edition |
| Grade | 9 and up |
| ISBN | 9780393354324 |
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