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Title

• Guns, Germs, and Steel

Author

• Jared Diamond

Publisher

• W.W. Norton & Company

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

Overview

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In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion — as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war — and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate pre-literate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be.

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