Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

Title Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
Names Diamond, Jared M.
Book Number DB046548
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Book
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Annotation Examines the disparate formation of human societies around the world in terms of wealth and power. Argues that accidents of geography and environment, rather than racial differences, favored some civilizations over others for developing agriculture, social institutions, and technologies.
Language English
Local Subject Social sciences - 300
Social sciences - Social processes - 303
History - Ancient World - 930
Archaeology - ARC
History - World, General - 909
Audience Notes Adult
Male narrator. NLS/BPH
Publication Info (APH, recording studio). 2007 National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1999 (APH, recording studio).
Original Publication Recorded from: 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c1997.
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