ISBN 13 : 978-0393061314

Contents :
Prologue : Yali's Question: The regionally differing courses of history

Part 1. From Eden to Cajamarca.
1. Up to the starting line : What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.?
2. A natural experiment of history : How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands
3. Collision at Cajamarca : Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain

Part 2. The rise and spread of food production.
4. Farmer power : the roots of guns, germs, and steel
5. History's haves and have-nots : geographic differences in the onset of food production
6. To farm or not to farm : causes of the spread of food production
7. How to make an almond : the unconscious development of ancient crops
8. Apples or Indians : why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants?
9. Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle : why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated?
10. Spacious skies and tilted axes : why did food production spread at different rates on different continents?

Part 3. From food to guns, germs, and steel.
11 Lethal gift of livestock : the evolution of germs
12. Blueprints and borrowed letters : the evolution of writing
13.Necessity's mother : the evolution of technology
14. From egalitarianism to kleptocracy : the evolution of government and religion

Part 4. Around the world in five chapters.
15. Yali's people : the histories of Australia and New Guinea
16. How China became Chinese : the history of East Asia
17. Speedboat to Polynesia : the history of Austronesian expansion
18. Hemispheres colliding : the histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared
19. How Africa became black : the history of Africa

Epilogue : The future of human history as a science. Who are the Japanese?
2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today.

Nbre volumes : 0

Language : English

Location : Nice Library

Material : Paper

Statement : Présent

Owner : Bibliothèque