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Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / by Diamond, Jared M.,author.(CARDINAL)272935;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 466-496) and index.Yali's question: The regionally differing courses of history -- From Eden to Cajamarca. Up to the starting line: What happened on all the continents before 11,000 B.C.? -- A natural experiment of history: How geography molded societies on Polynesian islands -- Collision at Cajamarca: Why the Inca emperor Atahuallpa did not capture King Charles I of Spain -- The rise and spread of food production. Farmer power: The roots of guns, germs, and steel -- History's haves and have-nots: Geographic differences in the onset of food production -- To farm or not to farm: Causes of the spread of food production -- How to make an almond: The unconscious development of ancient crops -- Apples or Indians: Why did peoples of some regions fail to domesticate plants? -- Zebras, unhappy marriages, and the Anna Karenina principle: Why were most big wild mammal species never domesticated? -- Spacious skies and tilted axes: Why did food production spread at different rates on different continents? -- From food to guns, germs, and steel. Lethal gift of livestock: The evolution of germs -- Blueprints and borrowed letters: The evolution of writing -- Necessity's mother: The evolution of technology -- From egalitarianism to kleptocracy: The evolution of government and religion -- Around the world in five chapters. Yali's people: The histories of Australia and New Guinea -- How China became Chinese: The history of East Asia -- Speedboat to Polynesia: The history of Austronesian expansion -- Hemispheres colliding: The histories of Eurasia and the Americas compared -- How Africa became black: The history of Africa -- The future of human history as a science -- Who are the Japanese? 2003 afterword: Guns, germs, and steel today.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. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide. The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. Thirty-two illustrations.1440LAccelerated Reader ARWinner Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, 1998.
Subjects: Civilization; Culture diffusion.; Ethnology.; Human beings; Social evolution.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 18
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Indian communities on the North Carolina Piedmont, A.D. 1000 to 1700 / by Ward, H. Trawick,1944-2010.(CARDINAL)169084; Davis, R. P. Stephen,Jr.,1951-(CARDINAL)151844; Eastman, Jane M.,1963-(CARDINAL)265906; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Research Laboratories of Anthropology.(CARDINAL)179132;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-437).
Subjects: Culture diffusion; Culture diffusion; Siouan Indians; Siouan Indians; Social archaeology; Social archaeology;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Museum frictions : public cultures/global transformations / by Karp, Ivan.(CARDINAL)136657; Rockefeller Foundation.(CARDINAL)137180;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-575) and index.Preface : Museum frictions : a project history / Ivan Karp and Corinne A. Kratz -- Introduction : Museum frictions : public cultures/global transformations / Corinne A. Kratz and Ivan Karp -- Exhibitionary complexes. Exhibitionary complexes / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett ; Exhibition, difference, and the logic of culture / Tony Bennett ; The reappearance of the authentic / Martin Hall ; Document : 5:29:45 AM / Joseph Masco ; Transforming museums on postapartheid tourist routes / Leslie Witz ; Isn't this a wonderful place? (A tour of a tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao) / Andrea Fraser ; World heritage and cultural economics / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett ; Document : The U.S. Department of Retro / The Onion -- Tactical museologies. Tactical museologies / Gustavo Buntinx and Ivan Karp ; Communities of sense/communities of sentiment : globalization and the museum void in an extreme periphery / Gustavo Buntinx ; Document : Declaration on the importance and value of universal museums ; Document : Art museums and the international exchange of cultural artifacts / Association of Art Museum Directors ; Document : Museo Salinas : a proactive space within the legal frame, some words from the director / Vicente Razo ; Musings on museums from Phnom Penh / Ingrid Muan ; Community museums, memory politics, and social transformation in South Africa : histories, possibilities, and limits / Ciraj Rassool ; Community museums and global connections : the Union of Community Museums of Oaxaca / Cuauhtémoc Camarena and Teresa Morales -- Remapping the museum. Remapping the museum / Corinne A. Kratz and Ciraj Rassool ; The museum outdoors : heritage, cattle, and permeable borders in the southwestern Kruger National Park / David Bunn ; Document : Baghdad lions to be relocated to South Africa ; Revisiting the old plantation : reparations, reconciliation, and museumizing American slavery / Fath Davis Ruffins ; Shared heritage, contested terrain : cultural negotiation and Ghana's Cape Coast Castle Museum exhibition "Crossroads of people, crossroads of trade" / Christine Mullen Kreamer ; Sites of persuasion : Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia / Howard Morphy ; Document : Destroying while preserving Junkanoo : the Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas / Krista A. Thompson ; The complicity of cultural production : the contingencies of performance in globalizing museum practices / Fred Myers.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Museums; Museums; Museums; Globalization; Museum techniques; Museum exhibits; Popular culture; Culture diffusion; Cultural pluralism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Guns, germs, and steel [videorecording] / by Coyote, Peter.(CARDINAL)348484; Diamond, Jared M.hst(CARDINAL)272935; Diamond, Jared M.Guns, germs, and steel.; Harrison, Cassian.prodrt; Lambert, Tim.prodrt; Lion Television Ltd.; National Geographic Society (U.S.)(CARDINAL)140388; National Geographic Television & Film.(CARDINAL)273629;
Disc. 1. episode 1. Out of Eden / produced & directed by Tim Lambert ; ep. 2. Conquest / produced & directed by Tim Lambert -- Disc 2. ep. 3. Into the tropics / director, Cassian Harrison ; special features.Editor, James Gold, Simon Greenwood ; cinematography, Pieter de Vries, Steve Gray ; music, Moving Image Music ; narrator, Peter Coyote.Host and consultant, Jared Diamond.An epic detective story that offers a gripping expose on why the world is so unequal. Professor Jared Diamond traveled the globe for over 30 years trying to answer this question. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? Diamond dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Civilization; Culture diffusion.; Ecology; Ethnology.; Human beings; Social evolution.; Social change.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Empires and barbarians : the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe / by Heather, Peter,1960-(CARDINAL)362960;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 694-719) and index.Migrants and barbarians -- Globalization and the Germani -- All roads lead to Rome? -- Migration and frontier collapse -- Huns on the run -- Franks and Anglo-Saxons: Elite Transfer or Völkerwanderung? -- A new Europe -- The creation of Slavic Europe -- Viking diasporas -- The first European Union -- The end of migration and the birth of Europe."At the start of the first millennium AD, southern and western Europe formed part of the Mediterranean-based Roman Empire, the largest state western Eurasia has ever known, and was set firmly on a trajectory towards towns, writing, mosaics, and central heating. Central, northern and eastern Europe was home to subsistence farmers, living in wooden houses with mud floors, whose largest political units weighed in at no more than a few thousand people. By the year 1000, Mediterranean domination of the European landscape had been destroyed. Instead of one huge Empire facing loosely organized subsistence farmers, Europe - from the Atlantic almost to the Urals - was home to an interacting commonwealth of Christian states, many of which are still with us today. This book tells the story of the transformations which changed western Eurasia forever: of the birth of Europe itself"--Provided by publisher."Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. The emergence of larger and stronger states in the north and east had, by the year 1000, brought patterns of human organization into much greater homogeneity across the continent. Barbarian Europe was barbarian no longer. Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together for the first time, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the destruction of the ancient world order in the light of modern migration and globalization patterns. The result is a compelling, nuanced, and integrated view of how the foundations of modern Europe were laid"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval.; Culture diffusion; Migrations of nations.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Weapons of mass distraction : soft power and American empire / by Fraser, Matthew,1958-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.
Subjects: Popular culture; Culture diffusion.; Imperialism.; Civilization, Modern;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Empires and Barbarians : migration, development, and the birth of Europe / by Heather, Peter,1960-(CARDINAL)362960;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: -- Preface Prologue Ch 1: Migrants and Barbarians Ch 2: Globalization and the Germans Ch 3: All Roads Lead to Rome? Ch 4: Migration and Frontier Collapse Ch 5: Huns on the Run Ch 6: Franks and Anglo-Saxons: Elite Transfer or Volkerwanderung? Ch 7: A New Europe Ch 8: The Creation of Slavic Europe Ch 9: Viking Diasporas Ch 10: The First European Union Ch 11: The End of Migration and the Birth of Europe Notes Primary Sources/ Bibliography."Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. The emergence of larger and stronger states in the north and east had, by the year 1000, brought patterns of human organization into much greater homogeneity across the continent. Barbarian Europe was barbarian no longer. Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together for the first time, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the destruction of the ancient world order in the light of modern migration and globalization patterns. The result is a compelling, nuanced, and integrated view of how the foundations of modern Europe were laid"--Provided by publisher."At the start of the first millennium AD, southern and western Europe formed part of the Mediterranean-based Roman Empire, the largest state western Eurasia has ever known, and was set firmly on a trajectory towards towns, writing, mosaics, and central heating. Central, northern and eastern Europe was home to subsistence farmers, living in wooden houses with mud floors, whose largest political units weighed in at no more than a few thousand people. By the year 1000, Mediterranean domination of the European landscape had been destroyed. Instead of one huge Empire facing loosely organized subsistence farmers, Europe - from the Atlantic almost to the Urals - was home to an interacting commonwealth of Christian states, many of which are still with us today. This book tells the story of the transformations which changed western Eurasia forever: of the birth of Europe itself"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Migrations of nations; Culture diffusion; Civilization, Medieval;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Possible pasts : becoming colonial in early America / by St. George, Robert Blair.(CARDINAL)278110; McNeil Center for Early American Studies.(CARDINAL)278109; Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.(CARDINAL)211675;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Acculturation; Culture conflict; Culture diffusion; Intercultural communication;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Quick and nimble : lessons from leading CEOs on how to create a culture of innovation / by Bryant, Adam.(CARDINAL)750944;
Why culture matters -- A simple plan -- Rules of the road -- A little respect -- It's about the team -- Adult conversations -- The hazards of email -- Play it again and again -- Building better managers -- Surfacing problems -- School never ends -- The art of smarter meetings -- Knocking down silos -- Sparking innovation -- Can we have some fun? -- Alone at the top.Draws on candid insights by more than two hundred CEOs to counsel business leaders on how to build and foster a corporate culture that promotes innovation and drives results.
Subjects: Corporate culture.; Creative ability in business.; Diffusion of innovations; Technological innovations.; New products.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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American frontiers : cultural encounters and continental conquest / by Nobles, Gregory H.(CARDINAL)309167;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-274) and index.
Subjects: Culture diffusion; Frontier and pioneer life; Indians of North America; Indians of North America;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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