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Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 480 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0393317552
  • 9780393317558
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4
Contents:
PROLOGUE : YALI'S QUESTION -- The regionally differing courses of history -- PT. ONE : FROM EDEN TO CAJAMARCA -- Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on the Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- PT. TWO : THE RISE AND SPREAD OF FOOD PRODUCTION -- Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- PT. THREE : FROM FOOD TO GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL -- Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- PT. FOUR AROUND THE WORLD IN FIVE CHAPTERS -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- EPILOGUE : The future of human history as a science.
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"With a new preface for the paperback edition"--Back cover note.

Includes bibliographical references.

PROLOGUE : YALI'S QUESTION -- The regionally differing courses of history -- PT. ONE : FROM EDEN TO CAJAMARCA -- Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on the Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- PT. TWO : THE RISE AND SPREAD OF FOOD PRODUCTION -- Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- PT. THREE : FROM FOOD TO GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL -- Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- PT. FOUR AROUND THE WORLD IN FIVE CHAPTERS -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- EPILOGUE : The future of human history as a science.

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