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...

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Auteurs principaux: Graeber, David (Auteur), Wengrow, D. (Auteur)
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: London : Allen Lane, 2021.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.