Guns, Germs, And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies [1st ed. paperback w new preface PROPER [facsimile]] 0393317552, 9780393317558

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamo

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English Pages 480 [516] Year 1999

Table of contents :
Preface to the Paperback Edition

PROLOGUE YALI’S QUESTION
The regionally differing courses of history

PART ONE FROM EDEN TO CAJAMARCA

CHAPTER 1 UP TO THE STARTING LINE
What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.?
CHAPTER 2 A NATURAL EXPERIMENT OF HISTORY
How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands
CHAPTER 3 COLLISION AT CAJAMARCA
Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain

PART TWO THE RISE AND SPREAD OF FOOD PRODUCTION

CHAPTER 4 FARMER POWER
The roots of guns, germs, and steel
CHAPTER 5 HISTORY’S HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS
Geographic differences in the onset of food production
CHAPTER 6 TO FARM OR NOT TO FARM
Causes of the spread of food production
CHAPTER 7 HOW TO MAKE AN ALMOND
The unconscious development of ancient crops
CHAPTER 8 APPLES OR INDIANS
Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants?
CHAPTER 9 ZEBRAS, UNHAPPY MARRIAGES, AND THEANNA KARENINA PRINCIPLE
Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated?
CHAPTER 10 SPACIOUS SKIES AND TILTED AXES
Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents?

PART THREE FROM FOOD TO GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

CHAPTER 11 LETHAL GIFT OF LIVESTOCK
The evolution of germs
CHAPTER 12 BLUEPRINTS AND BORROWED LETTERS
The evolution of writing
CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY’S MOTHER
The evolution of technology
CHAPTER 14 FROM EGALITARIANISM TO KLEPTOCRACY
The evolution of government and religion

PART FOUR AROUND THE WORLD IN FIVE CHAPTERS

CHAPTER 15 YALI’S PEOPLE
The histories of Australia and New Guinea
CHAPTER 16 HOW CHINA BECAME CHINESE
The history of East Asia
CHAPTER 17 SPEEDBOAT TO POLYNESIA
The history of the Austronesian expansion
CHAPTER 18 HEMISPHERES COLLIDING
The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared
CHAPTER 19 HOW AFRICA BECAME BLACK
The history of Africa

EPILOGUE THE FUTURE OF HUMAN
HISTORY AS A SCIENCE

Acknowledgments
Further Readings
Credits
INDEX

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