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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]
1997: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (ISBN 978-0-099-30278-0). Also published with the title Guns, germs and steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years (ISBN 978-0099302780) 2005: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (ISBN 978-0241958681)
My previous book (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies), had applied the comparative method to the opposite problem: the differing rates of buildup of human societies on different continents over the last 13,000 years. In the present book focusing on collapses rather than buildups, I compare many past and present societies that ...
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Winner Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works: Finalist Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster: Finalist 1999 John McPhee: Annals of the Former World: Winner Elliott Currie Crime and Punishment in America: Finalist Judith Rich Harris
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Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. W.W. Norton & Company, March 1997. ISBN 0-393-03891-2; Iain Hay: Geographies of the Super-rich. Edward Elgar. 2013 ISBN 978-0-85793-568-7; Iain Hay and Jonathan Beaverstock: Handbook on Wealth and the Super-rich. Edward Elgar ISBN 978-1-78347-403-5
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years