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

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Author: Diamond, Jared M.

Title: Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond.

Description: 480 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.

ISBN: 0393317552 (pbk.) :
9780393317558 (pbk.)
Contents: Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on the Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-457) and index.

Subject(s): Social evolution.
Civilization History.
Ethnology.
Human beings Effect of environment on.
Culture diffusion.

Location(s): copy 1 Bailey/Howe Books (3rd Floor)

Call Number: HM206 .D48 1997

Status: Not Charged Check Shelf


Author:	Diamond, Jared M.
Title:	Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond.
Description:	480 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.
ISBN:	0393317552 (pbk.) : 9780393317558 (pbk.)
Contents:	Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on the Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-457) and index.
Subject(s):	Social evolution. Civilization History. Ethnology. Human beings Effect of environment on. Culture diffusion.

Location(s):	copy 1 Bailey/Howe Books (3rd Floor)
Call Number:	HM206 .D48 1997
Status:	Not Charged Check Shelf

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