基本説明
銃や鉄器を持ち、強力な病原菌を撒き散らす民族が歴史の勝者になってきた？新しい文明観を提示する書。ピュリッツアー賞、コスモス国際賞受賞。１９カ国で刊行されている世界的ベストセラー。
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1997. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize.
Full Description
In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.NER(01): ROW
