Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies /
This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why did history unfold differently on different continents? In case this question immediately makes you shudder at the thought that you are about to read a racist treatise, you...
Основен автор: | Diamond, Jared M. |
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Формат: | Книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
New York :
Norton,
1999.
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Съдържание:
- 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 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
- 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today.