The dawn of everything a new history of humanity
"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 emancipatio...
| Main Authors: | Graeber, David (Author), Wengrow, D. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2021.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 public 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.