GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

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Globalization, Historical Perspectives, and International Relations Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Abstract

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science.

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