Guns, Germs, and Steel

1997 essay by Jared Diamond
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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Summary

Guns, Germs, and Steel is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.7% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,037 views/month, #45 of 6,426).[2]

Key Facts

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel authored Jared Diamond[3].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction[4].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's instance of is recorded as written work[5].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's publisher is recorded as W. W. Norton & Company[6].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's genre is recorded as essay[7].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's follows is recorded as Why Is Sex Fun?[8].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's followed by is recorded as Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed[9].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's depicts is recorded as Jared Diamond[10].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 5054151051869033530009[11].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 435151051765633530008[12].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's language of work or name is recorded as English[13].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's country of origin is recorded as United States[14].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's publication date is recorded as +1997-01-01T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ql2g[16].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's Open Library ID is recorded as OL276558W[17].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's has edition or translation is recorded as Guns, Germs, and Steel[18].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's has edition or translation is recorded as Q99240467[19].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's main subject is recorded as geography[20].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's main subject is recorded as history[21].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's spoken text audio is recorded as Wikipedia - Guns, Germs, and Steel.mp3[22].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 2567[23].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's described by source is recorded as The WEIRDest People in the World[24].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's described by source is recorded as The Dawn of Everything[25].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's nominated for is recorded as Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction[26].
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Guns, Germs, and Steel'}[27].

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Designation and Status

Guns, Germs, and Steel's instance of is recorded as written work[5].

Why It Matters

Guns, Germs, and Steel ranks in the top 0.7% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,037 views/month, #45 of 6,426).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

FAQs

What awards did Guns, Germs, and Steel receive?

Honors received include Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction[4].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [4] . pulitzer.org. pulitzer.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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