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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel offers a sweeping explanation for why some human societies developed agriculture, technology, centralized governments, and military power earlier than others. Jared Diamond argues that geography and environment, not racial or cultural superiority, shaped the broad patterns of world history.
- Edition
- 20th Anniversary
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780393354324
- Collation
- 528 pages, 6.1 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.4 DIA g
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond’s sweeping explanation of why human societies developed along such different trajectories. Rejecting racial or cultural superiority theories, Diamond argues that geography, climate, and the availability of domesticable plants and animals shaped the rise of agriculture, population growth, technology, and political organization.
- Edition
- 20th Anniversary
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780393354324
- Collation
- 528 pages, 6.1 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.4 DIA g
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse explores why some societies throughout history have fallen apart while others have adapted and endured. Drawing on case studies from Easter Island, the Anasazi, the Maya, Norse Greenland, Rwanda, Haiti, China, and Australia, Jared Diamond identifies the environmental and political pressures that shape a society’s fate. He argues that factors such as deforestation, soil depletion, wat…
- Edition
- Revised Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780143117001
- Collation
- 608 pages, 5.47 x 1.26 x 8.35 inches
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.2 DIA c
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