Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Narrator: Doug Ordunio
Imprint: Random House Audio
Genre: Social Science - Human Geography
Release Date: January 18, 2011
16 Hours and 30 Minutes
List Price: $25
ISBN: 9780307932426
Categories:
Social Science - Human Geography, History - Civilization, Social Science - Anthropology - General
Tags: history, anthropology, science, sociology, civilization, geography, world history, culture, evolution, society, biology, economics, environment, technology, ecology, social evolution, agriculture, ethnology, archaeology, disease, politics, social science, social history, popular science, war, world, prehistory, cultural studies, epidemiology, natural history
Tags: history, anthropology, science, sociology, civilization, geography, world history, culture, evolution, society, biology, economics, environment, technology, ecology, social evolution, agriculture, ethnology, archaeology, disease, politics, social science, social history, popular science, war, world, prehistory, cultural studies, epidemiology, natural history
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In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion—as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war—and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California’s Gold Medal.