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

By: Diamond, Jared M [author.].
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1999Edition: Twentieth anniversary edition.Description: 494 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeSubject(s): Social evolution | Civilization -- History | Ethnology | Human beings -- Effect of environment on | Culture diffusionDDC classification: 303.4
Contents:
Preface to the paperback edition : why is world history like an onion? -- prologue : Yali's question -- Up yo the starting line -- A natural experiment of history -- Collision at Cajamarca -- Framer power -- History's haves and have-nots -- To farm or not to farm -- How to make an almond -- Apples or Indians -- Zebras, unhappy marriages and the Anna Karenina principle -- Spacious skies and tilted axes -- Lethal gift of livestock -- Blueprints and borrowed letters -- Necessity's mother -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy -- Yali's people -- How China became Chinese -- Speedboat to Polynesia -- Hemispheres colliding -- How Africa became black -- Who are the Japanese? -- The future of human history as a science -- 2017 afterword : rich and poor countries in light of 'Guns, germs and steel'.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 303.4 DIA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0062541
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"With a new afterword"--Cover.

Originally published as Norton paperback in 1999, reissued 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-474) and index.

Preface to the paperback edition : why is world history like an onion? -- prologue : Yali's question -- Up yo the starting line -- A natural experiment of history -- Collision at Cajamarca -- Framer power -- History's haves and have-nots -- To farm or not to farm -- How to make an almond -- Apples or Indians -- Zebras, unhappy marriages and the Anna Karenina principle -- Spacious skies and tilted axes -- Lethal gift of livestock -- Blueprints and borrowed letters -- Necessity's mother -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy -- Yali's people -- How China became Chinese -- Speedboat to Polynesia -- Hemispheres colliding -- How Africa became black -- Who are the Japanese? -- The future of human history as a science -- 2017 afterword : rich and poor countries in light of 'Guns, germs and steel'.

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