Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece examines the environmental, geographical, and technological factors that shaped the broad pattern of human history over the past 13,000 years. Defying biological determinism, Diamond offers a compelling argument for why Eurasian civilizations conquered and dominated other regions—attributing their success to continental orientation, plant and animal domestication, epidemic immunity, and technological momentum.

Auteur : Jared Diamond