480 orrialde
English hizkuntza
1999ko aza. 8a(e)an W.W. Norton & Co.(e)n argitaratua.
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. It is a work rich in dramatic revelations that will fascinate readers even as it challenges conventional wisdom.
If The Dawn of Everything was about humans as a political animal, this book is all about humans as a resourceful species. We all try our hardest, but some of us had better starting conditions than others. This book offers a great way of understanding why history unfolded the way it did.
If The Dawn of Everything was about humans as a political animal, this book is all about humans as a resourceful species. We all try our hardest, but some of us had better starting conditions than others. This book offers a great way of understanding why history unfolded the way it did.
