عنوان

Guns, germs, and steel :

شابک

0393317552

شماره

b412236

عنوان اصلي

Guns, germs, and steel :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the fates of human societies /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jared Diamond

نام خاص و کميت اثر

494, [2] pages, [32] pages of plates :

ساير جزييات

illustrations, maps ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

"2003 Afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today."--p. 426-440

متن يادداشت

"With a new afterword about the modern world"--Cover

متن يادداشت

Includes "Reading group guide"--p. [495-496]

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-471) and index

متن يادداشت

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 -- The future of human history of a science. 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today

بدون عنوان

0

موضوع مستند نشده

Civilization-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Culture diffusion

موضوع مستند نشده

Ethnology

موضوع مستند نشده

Human beings-- Effect of environment on

موضوع مستند نشده

Social evolution

موضوع مستند نشده

Civilization-- history

موضوع مستند نشده

Ethnology

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Diamond, Jared M

تاريخ عمليات

20050804023147.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y