A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Ships from: Amazon Sold by: Willows Book Store List Price:18.95Details The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. 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 preliterate cultures. has been added to your Cart Buy new: 12.3612.36 FREE delivery: Monday, May 8 on orders over 25.00 shipped by Amazon. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.
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