Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Цена 17.55 - 32.82 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780393061314
Брэнд
PBS
Автор
Jared M. Diamond
Издатель
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Страниц
480
Год выпуска
1999
Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond"s thesis sheds light on why Western civilization became hegemonic: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples" environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Those who domesticated plants and animals early got a head start on developing writing, government, technology, weapons of war, and immunity to deadly germs.