480 páginas
Idioma English
Publicado el 8 de noviembre de 1999 por W.W. Norton & Co..
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this groundbreaking book, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns. Here, at last, is a world history that really is a history of all the world's peoples, a unified narrative of human life even more intriguing and important than accounts of dinosaurs and glaciers. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be. It is a work rich in dramatic revelations that will fascinate readers even as it challenges conventional wisdom.
Una gran montaña de anécdotas muy interesantes pero que se hacen bola al tercio del libro y que cuesta muchísimo digerir cuando ya vas por la segunda mitad. Lo que me tiene fascinada es la confianza de amianto del autor, un ornitólogo que se ha marcado 400 páginas de ensayo antropológico materialista que, encima, ha tenido repercusión. Tienen que estar los antropólogos contentos.
