Guns, Germs and Steel
| Subtitle: A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years
Author: Jared M. Diamond
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Published: 1998-04-01
EAN: 9780099302780
ISBN: 0099302780
Edition Info: 480 pages
'Guns, Germs and Steel' is nothing less than an enquiry into the reasonswhy Europe and the Near East became the cradle of modern societies- eventually giving rise to capitalism and science, the dominant forces in our contemporary world-and why,until modern times. Africa, Australasia and the Americas lagged behind in technological sophistication and in political and military power. The native peoplesof those continents are still suffering the consequences. Diamond shows definitively that the origins of this inequality in human fortunes cannot be laid at the door of race or inherent features of the people themselves. He argues that the inequality stems instaed from the differing natural resources available to the people of each continent.
Categories: Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economic History, Human Geography, General and World History, Classical History Classical Civilisation, Social and Cultural History
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