Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Guns, Germs, and Steel is a widely influential book by Jared Diamond that explores how geography, environment, and the distribution of domesticable plants and animals shaped the unequal development of human societies.
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book
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history book → non-fiction book → popular science book → |
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television documentary series
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Eurasia’s east–west axis facilitated diffusion of crops, animals, and technologies
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availability of domesticable plants and animals shaped early food production → food surpluses enabled population growth and social complexity → guns, steel, and germs gave Eurasians military and biological advantages → proximity to domesticated animals led to deadly germs that devastated other populations → |
| author |
Jared Diamond
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| awarded |
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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| awardYear |
1998
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geographic and environmental factors largely explain the unequal development of human societies
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United States
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| criticizedBy |
some anthropologists
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some historians → |
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environmental determinism
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underemphasizing culture and agency → |
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PBS
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2005
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| genre |
anthropology
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geography → history → sociology of development → |
| influenced |
popular understanding of world history
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public debates on global inequality → |
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English
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| notableChapterTopic |
conquest of the Inca Empire by the Spanish
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origins of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent → spread of crops and livestock across Eurasia → |
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Around the World in Five Chapters
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From Eden to Cajamarca → From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel → The Rise and Spread of Food Production → |
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1997
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| publisher |
W. W. Norton & Company
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| received |
Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science
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| structure |
prologue and four parts
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| subject |
Eurasian expansion
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domestication of animals → domestication of plants → environmental determinism → epidemic diseases → food production → geographic determinism → human societies → inequality between societies → technological development → |
| subtitle |
The Fates of Human Societies
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Referenced by (13)
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Jared Diamond
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Jared Diamond → |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
("The Rise and Spread of Food Production")
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Guns, Germs, and Steel ("From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel") → |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis → |
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Why Is Sex Fun?
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The Third Chimpanzee
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
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Around the World in Five Chapters
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
("The Fates of Human Societies")
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Around the World in Five Chapters
("Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies")
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