PORTUGUESE

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

By Jared , Overdrive , Inc.; Diamond

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton Company
Year
1999
ISBN
9780393069228, 9780393609295, 9780393354324, 0393069222
Language
portuguese
Format
AZW3
Filesize
119 MB (125223015 bytes)
Pages
528\0
Time added
2020-11-29 05:14:35
History;Nonfiction;Science;Anthropology;Sociology;

Description

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 Steelchronicles 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.

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