Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond (b. 1937) is an American geographer, historian, and author renowned for his interdisciplinary approach to understanding human societies. A professor of geography at UCLA, he is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997), which explores how environmental and geographic factors shaped the development of civilizations.

Diamond’s other acclaimed works, including Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, examine the lessons history and traditional cultures offer for modern challenges. His research spans fields such as anthropology, biology, and history, earning him numerous awards and recognition as one of the leading thinkers in global and environmental studies.

  • Anthropology, Biology, History
  • 1937
  • Male
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  • Guns, Germs and Steel A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
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    Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years

    Why did history unfold so differently across continents, and what silent forces shaped the fate of entire civilizations? Guns, Germs and Steel is a sweeping, sobering detective story of humanity’s uneven march through time—where geography, biology, and chance played far greater roles than genius or will. In tracing the roots of global inequality not to culture or intellect but to crops, microbes, and metal, it overturns long-held myths with unflinching clarity. This is not just a chronicle of conquests, but a meditation on the fragile accidents that shaped the modern world. What if the seeds of dominance were sown in the soil itself?

    • Originally Published: 1997
    • Publisher : Vintage, 2017
    • Pages: 580
    • Genre: Non-Fiction
    • Book Type: Hardcopy
    • ISBN-13: 978-0099302780
    • Access: Members