History
Guns, Germs and Steel
Publisher: W. W. Norton, 2005, 512pp, 1st ed.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples.
Table of contents
| Prologue : Yali's question | 13 | |
| Pt. 1 | From Eden to Cajamarca | 33 |
| Ch. 1 | Up to the starting line | 35 |
| Ch. 2 | A natural experiment of history | 53 |
| Ch. 3 | Collision at Cajamarca | 67 |
| Pt. 2 | The rise and spread of food production | 83 |
| Ch. 4 | Farmer power | 85 |
| Ch. 5 | History's haves and have-nots | 93 |
| Ch. 6 | To farm or not to farm | 104 |
| Ch. 7 | How to make an almond | 114 |
| Ch. 8 | Apples or Indians | 131 |
| Ch. 9 | Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle | 157 |
| Ch. 10 | Spacious skies and tilted axes | 176 |
| Pt. 3 | From food to guns, germs, and steel | 193 |
| Ch. 11 | Lethal gift of livestock | 195 |
| Ch. 12 | Blueprints and borrowed letters | 215 |
| Ch. 13 | Necessity's mother | 239 |
| Ch. 14 | From egalitarianism to kleptocracy | 265 |
| Pt. 4 | Around the world in five chapters | 293 |
| Ch. 15 | Yali's people | 295 |
| Ch. 16 | How China became Chinese | 322 |
| Ch. 17 | Speedboat to Polynesia | 334 |
| Ch. 18 | Hemispheres colliding | 354 |
| Ch. 19 | How Africa became black | 376 |
| Epilogue : the future of human history as a science | 403 | |
| Who are the Japanese? | 426 | |
| 2003 afterword : guns, germs, and steel today | 450 |