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The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity / David Graeber and David Wengrow.
"A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution-from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality-and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374157357
- Physical Description: xii, 692 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in 2021 by Allen Lane, Great Britain"-- Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-673) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Farewell to humanity's childhood, or, Why this is not a book about the origins of inequality -- Wicked liberty: the indigenous critique and the myth of progress -- Unfreezing the Ice Age: in and out of chains: the protean possibilities of human politics -- Free people, the origin of cultures, and the advent of private property (not necessarily in that order) -- Many seasons ago: why Canadian foragers kept slaves and their Californian neighbours didn't; or, the problem with 'modes of production' -- Gardens of Adonis: the revolution that never happened: how Neolithic peoples avoided agriculture -- The ecology of freedom: how farming first hopped, stumbled and bluffed its way around the world -- Imaginary cities: Eurasia's first urbanites - in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Ukraine and China - and how they built cities without kings -- Hiding in plain sight: the indigenous origins of social housing and democracy in the Americas -- Why the state has no origin: the humble beginnings of sovereignty, bureaucracy and politics -- Full circle: on the historical foundations of the indigenous critique -- Conclusion: The dawn of everything. |
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| Subject: | Civilization. Civilization > Philosophy. Social conditions. Social history. World history. World history. |
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David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, and was a contributor to Harperâs Magazine, The Guardian, and The Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020.
David Wengrow is a professor of comparative archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and has been a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of several books, including What Makes Civilization?. Wengrow conducts archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East.