Автор: Jared Diamond
Название: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company
Год: 2017
ISBN: 9780393069228
Язык: English
Формат: epub
Размер: 0,9 mb
Страниц: 528
In this "artful, informative, and delightful" 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.