Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years /

Diamond, Jared M. 1937-

Guns, germs and steel : a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years / Jared Diamond - [London] : Vintage, [1998] - 480 p., [32]p of plates : ill., maps ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities



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