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Book

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

Call Number

  • 303.4 D5375 2017 (CEN)

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Edition

Twentieth anniversary edition.

Publication Information

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]

Physical Description

494 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

The author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns.

Notes

"With a new afterword"--Cover.

Originally published as Norton paperback in 1999, reissued 2017.

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