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Name: David Graeber - The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 1.61 MB

Title: The Dawn of Everything
Author: David Graeber, David Wengrow
Language: English
Year: 2021
Subjects: History, Science, Sociology, Nonfiction
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 9780374157357
Total pages: N/A

Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver 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.
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike-either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human...