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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374157359
ISBN-139780374157357
eBay Product ID (ePID)13050067685
Product Key Features
Book TitleDawn of Everything : a New History of Humanity
Number of Pages704 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicCivilization, Life Sciences / Evolution, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Science, History
AuthorDavid Graeber, David Wengrow
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height2 in
Item Weight31.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-025790
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal909
SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and 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 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 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 history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent 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 human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful 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. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
LC Classification NumberCB19.G69 2021
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- 01. Okt. 2022
Dawn of Everything
This is a densely researched book written in lucid and impassioned prose covering a vast terrain. The authors' perspective gives me hope for our passage through this inchoate frenetic planet we all inhabit. While the Hobbesians stake a claim with much evidence on a gloomy vision, this interpretation is equally likely and more enticing.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 07. Dez. 2021
What you know can be old yet everything old is new again
There's new information about almost everything we think we know. Do not marry facts, just have love affairs with them and let the relationship grow.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 18. Okt. 2022
Thorough critique and expansion of assumed narratives about humankind.
Must read. Challenges the popular narratives of the development of humankind. Presents a much more realistic approach in the context of a timeline of human development.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 19. Aug. 2024
Great alternative view of history and us.
A terrific alternative to conventional understanding or received wisdom of how we got where we are and what we might be as a civilization or several civilizations.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 16. Mai. 2022
A challenge to the traditional western view of history
An interesting and important counter-view to the creation of cultural complexity.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 17. Jun. 2023
Great read
Didn’t disappoint, every review on it was accurate. A must readBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 09. Nov. 2024
Highly recommended reading.
I am thrilled to be reading this brilliant re-framing of history.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 19. Dez. 2021
Excellent- a new world is possible !
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- 29. Jul. 2022
Most excellent
And the excellent readBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 08. Jun. 2024
Perfect, better than described, thanks!
Perfect, better than described, thanks!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
