by Jared Diamond, Fabián Chueca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806183547
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«Armi, acciaio e malattie. Breve storia del mondo negli ultimi tredicimila anni» is the historical essay by Jared Diamond, published by Einaudi in paperback.
The essay investigates why some peoples dominated others and accumulated more wealth. Jared Diamond argues that cultural differences are not due to innate abilities but to geographical and ecological factors linked to chance; he defends this idea with a survey of world history supported by linguistics, archaeology and genetics.
Italian edition of 400 pages; it is the translation of «Guns, Germs and Steel», winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1998) and first volume of the series «Civilizations Rise and Fall».
Recommended for readers of history, anthropology and popular science interested in the deep causes of inequality between societies.
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.
