The Dawn of Everything (UK edition)

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The Dawn of Everything (UK edition)

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Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery and civilization itself. Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we begin to see what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 per cent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful possibilities than we tend to assume. ‘The Dawn of Everything’ fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society.

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SKU: 37819 Category: Tag:
Subtitle: A New History of Humanity
Author: Graeber, David & David Wengrow
Year: 2021
ISBN: 9780241402429
Pages: 704
Language: English
Publisher: Allen Lane
Publisher's city: London
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