《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》原版封面 纽约时报畅销书
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枪炮、病菌与钢铁

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

纽约时报畅销书 · 出处:W. W. Norton 官网

贾雷德·戴蒙德问了一个大问题:为什么不同大陆上的历史走得这么不一样?他明确不从种族差异找答案,而是往回追到一万多年前,看地理、可驯化的动植物、病菌、文字和技术怎样让一些社会先走一步。读完会换个眼光看今天世界上的强弱和贫富。

他们怎么说

  • 芒格1998 · BRK股东大会

    读了两遍。同类最好。

原书目录

32 项
  1. Preface to the Paperback Edition: Why Is World History Like an Onion?
  2. Prologue Yali’s Question
  3. Part One: From Eden to Cajamarca
  4. Chapter 1. Up to the Starting Line
  5. Chapter 2. A Natural Experiment of History
  6. Chapter 3. Collision at Cajamarca
  7. Part Two: The Rise and Spread of Food Production
  8. Chapter 4. Farmer Power
  9. Chapter 5. History’s Haves and Have-nots
  10. Chapter 6. To Farm or Not to Farm
  11. Chapter 7. How to Make an Almond
  12. Chapter 8. Apples or Indians
  13. Chapter 9. Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle
  14. Chapter 10. Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes
  15. Part Three: From Food to Guns, Germs, and Steel
  16. Chapter 11. Lethal Gift of Livestock
  17. Chapter 12. Blueprints and Borrowed Letters
  18. Chapter 13. Necessity’s Mother
  19. Chapter 14. From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy
  20. Part Four: Around the World in Six Chapters
  21. Chapter 15. Yali’s People
  22. Chapter 16. How China Became Chinese
  23. Chapter 17. Speedboat to Polynesia
  24. Chapter 18. Hemispheres Colliding
  25. Chapter 19. How Africa Became Black
  26. Chapter 20. Who Are the Japanese?
  27. Epilogue: The Future of Human History as a Science
  28. 2017 Afterword: Rich and Poor Countries in Light of Guns, Germs, and Steel
  29. Further Readings
  30. Credits
  31. Illustrations
  32. Reading Group Guide

封面和目录取自原书,中文简介据原书前言和导言整理;推荐原话出处见“他们怎么说”。这本书还没开讲,开讲后会在这里更新。