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Guns, Germs, and Steel was first published by W. W. Norton in March 1997. It was published in Great Britain with the title Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years by Vintage in 1998. [34] It was a selection of Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Newbridge Book Club. [35]
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond; Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed also by Jared Diamond; The Elusive Quest for Growth by William Easterly; The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes; Violence and Social Orders by Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast; The Modern World-System, vols. 1-4 by Immanuel ...
Hanson's emphasis on cultural exception rejects racial explanations for Western military preeminence and disagrees with the environmental or geographical determinist explanations such as those put forth by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997). [9] [non-primary source needed]
The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his 1997 book Guns, Germs and Steel. [2] Diamond uses this principle to illustrate why so few wild animals have been successfully domesticated throughout history, as a deficiency in any one of a great number of factors can render a species undomesticable.
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond) The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending) The Dawn of Everything (David Graeber and David Wengrow) Symbolic culture; Social constructionism
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel. W.W. Norton & Company: 2005. ISBN 978-0393061314. Sharon Kirsch, What Species of Creatures: Animal Relations From the New World. New Star Books: 2008. ISBN 978-1554200405. Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0300119930.
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