Guns, Germs, and Steel

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking and unified narrative of human history. A landmark in our understanding of societies, Jared Diamond chronicles how the modern world and its inequalities emerged. This commemorative edition features a bold new cover and a previously unpublished afterword by the author.

Guns, Germs, and Steel seeks to demonstrate, through an intriguing review of the evolution of peoples, that the fate of Europeans, Native Americans, Africans, Asians, and Australians was shaped by geographic and environmental factors, and not by ethnic issues or particularities regarding the intelligence and aptitudes of each of the groups.

Through a journey through thirteen thousand years of history of the continents, Jared Diamond concludes that the domination of one population over another has military (weapons), technological (steel) or disease (germs) foundations, which decimated hunter-gatherer societies, ensuring conquests, allowing the expansion of the domains of certain peoples and, consequently, granting them great political and economic power.

With a new cover, this edition features a previously unpublished afterword by the author on the poverty and wealth of nations.

“One of the most significant projects embarked on by any intellectual of our generation” - Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times.

"Fascinating... It creates a foundation for understanding human history." - Bill Gates