Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
| Book | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 1997 |
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Imprint | Vintage |
| First Published by | Chatto & Windus |
| Copyright Holder | Jared Diamond |
| Printed and Bound by | Bookmarque Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London, England |
| Copyright | 1997 |
| Republished | 1998 |
| This Edition Published | 2005 |
| Pages / Font | 480 pages |
| Printer's Key | 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 |
| ISBN | 0099302780 |
| Chapters | Preface to the Paperback Edition
Prologue: Yali's Question
Part One: From Eden to Cajamarca
Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line
Chapter 2: A Natural Experiment of History
Chapter 3: Collision at Cajamarca
Part Two: The Rise and Spread of Food Production
Chapter 4: Farmer Power
Chapter 5: History's Haves and Have-nots
Chapter 6: To Farm or Not to Farm
Chapter 7: How to Make an Almond
Chapter 8: Apples or Indians
Chapter 9: Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle
Chapter 10: Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes
Part Three: From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel
Chapter 11: Lethal Gift of Livestock
Chapter 12: Blueprints and Borrowed Letters
Chapter 13: Necessity's Mother
Chapter 14: From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy
Part Four: Around the World in Five Chapters
Chapter 15: Yali's People
Chapter 16: How China Became Chinese
Chapter 17: Speedboat to Polynesia
Chapter 18: Hemispheres Colliding
Chapter 19: How Africa Became Black
Epilogue: The Future of Human History as a Science
Acknowledgments
Further Readings
Credits
Index Preface to the Paperback Edition
Prologue: Yali's Question
Part One: From Eden to Cajamarca
Chapter 1: Up to the Starting Line
Chapter 2: A Natural Experiment of History
Chapter 3: Collision at Cajamarca
Part Two: The Rise and Spread of Food Production
Chapter 4: Farmer Power
Chapter 5: History's Haves and Have-nots
Chapter 6: To Farm or Not to Farm
Chapter 7: How to Make an Almond
Chapter 8: Apples or Indians
Chapter 9: Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle
Chapter 10: Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes
Part Three: From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel
Chapter 11: Lethal Gift of Livestock
Chapter 12: Blueprints and Borrowed Letters
Chapter 13: Necessity's Mother
Chapter 14: From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy
Part Four: Around the World in Five Chapters
Chapter 15: Yali's People
Chapter 16: How China Became Chinese
Chapter 17: Speedboat to Polynesia
Chapter 18: Hemispheres Colliding
Chapter 19: How Africa Became Black
Epilogue: The Future of Human History as a Science
Acknowledgments
Further Readings
Credits
Index Show all ▾ |