Guns, Germs, and Steel (inbunden)
Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
528
Utgivningsdatum
2017-03-07
Upplaga
20
Förlag
WW Norton & Co
Dimensioner
231 x 152 x 41 mm
Vikt
613 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
,
ISBN
9780393354324

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

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Häftad,  Engelska, 2017-03-07
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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.
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  1. Daterad populärvetenskap när den är som sämst.
    Joel Dufva, 2 juni 2020

    Intressant ämne men som bok är den diskrediterad av så gott som all nutida antropologisk och historisk forskning. Boken innehåller få om några källor vilket i sig bör diskvalificera den som underlag överhuvud taget. Diamond lägger fram en reduktiv och deterministisk tes om att det är geografi som i första hand (nästan uteslutande) format civilisationer och ignorerar i största möjliga mån kulturella, institutionella eller teknologiska orsaker varför civilisationer framväxt på olika vis.
    Geografisk Determinism är intellektuellt bankrutt.

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"An epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its authority." -- Thomas M. Disch - The New Leader "[Diamond] is broadly erudite, writes in a style that pleasantly expresses scientific concepts in vernacular American English, and deals almost exclusively in questions that should interest everyone concerned about how humanity has developed. . . . [He] has done us all a great favor by supplying a rock-solid alternative to the racist answer. . . . A wonderfully interesting book." -- Alfred W. Crosby - Los Angeles Times "Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only seem to come along once every generation or so. . . . Now [Guns, Germs, and Steel] must be added to their select number. . . . Diamond meshes technological mastery with historical sweep, anecdotal delight with broad conceptual vision, and command of sources with creative leaps. No finer work of its kind has been published this year, or for many past." -- Martin Sieff - Washington Times "No scientist brings more experience from the laboratory and field, none thinks more deeply about social issues or addresses them with greater clarity, than Jared Diamond as illustrated by Guns, Germs, and Steel. In this remarkably readable book he shows how history and biology can enrich one another to produce a deeper understanding of the human condition." -- Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University "The scope and the explanatory power of this book are astounding." -- The New Yorker "A book of remarkable scope, a history of the world in less than 500 pages which succeeds admirably, where so many others have failed, in analyzing some of the basic workings of culture process.... One of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years." -- Colin Renfrew - Nature "An ambitious, highly important book." -- James Shreeve - New York Times Book Review "Artful, informative, and delightful.... There is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of a subject, and that is what Jared Diamond has done." -- William H. McNeil - New York Review of Books

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Jared Diamond is professor of geography at UCLA and author of the best-selling Collapse and The Third Chimpanzee. He is a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the National Medal of Science.