Diamond Jared: Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years

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Publikace: Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years - Jared Diamond. This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, 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 one of the most important and humane works of popular science. Publikace: Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everbody for the Last 13000 Years - Jared Diamond. Autor : Jared Diamond, A study of how Europe and the Near East became the cradles of modern society, eventually giving rise to capitalism and science, the dominant forces in today's world - and why, until more recent times, Africa, Australasia and the Americas lagged behind in both technological sophistication and political and military power. 32 illus.Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Guns, Germs and Steel, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : neuvedeno This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?