Guns, germs, and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years /
By: Diamond, Jared M
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Publisher: London : Vintage, 1998Description: 480 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 20 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0099302780; 9780099302780:.Subject(s): World history | Social evolution | Economic geography | Civilization -- History | Economic history | Ethnology | Human beings -- Effect of environment on | Culture diffusionDDC classification: 909 Summary: This book abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. By focusing on what ancient peoples had in the way of land, animals and plants, Diamond sheds genuinely new light on the world's most explosive diversions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-457) and index.
This book abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. By focusing on what ancient peoples had in the way of land, animals and plants, Diamond sheds genuinely new light on the world's most explosive diversions.
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1997 Includes bibliographical references and index