Guns, Germs And Steel
Guns, Germs And Steel
Writer : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Vintage
Category : Non-Fiction
ISBN Number : 9780099302780
Type : Paper back
Page Count :
480 pages
Language : English
Published Date :
25th April, 2005
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years.
