Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Description

Author: Diamond, Jared

Publisher: Norton

Pub Date: 1999

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  3 copies.  Copy 1: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name in ink on ffep.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Copy 2: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears.  Binding tight.  One long crease, from top edge to bottom edge, on rear cover.  Light edge and corner wear.  Copy 3 (HF25): Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  All edges and corners slightly worn.  I think it’s been read at least once, but carefully.

Notes: “Why did wealth and power become distributed as they now are, rather than in some other way?  For instance, why weren’t Native Americans, Africans, and Aboriginal Australians the ones who decimated, subjugated or exterminated Europeans and Asians?” (From the Preface) And there you have the answer in the title–guns, germs, stell.