The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Graeber, David; Wengrow, David

ISBN 10: 0374157359 / ISBN 13: 9780374157357

Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2021

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine. First American edition, second printing. Some smudges on book and pencil marks in text. No discerned tears or creases.
Contents include:
Farewell to Humanity's Childhood
Wicked Liberty
Unfreezing the Ice Age
Free People, the Origin of Cultures, and the Advent of Private Property
Many Seasons Ago
Garden of Adonis
The Ecology of Freedom
Imaginary Cities
Hiding in Plain Sight
Why the State Has No Origin
Full Circle
Conclusion.

N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1789171822065

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374157359
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374157357
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Assez bon
• État de la jaquette: Bon
• Dimensions: 6,65 L x 9,35 H x 1,95 P (en pouces) 6,65 pouces de largeur par 9,35 pouces de hauteur par 1,95 pouces de profondeur
• Poids: 35 onces
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Non-fiction
  • History

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Synopsis

INSTANT 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

À propos des auteurs

David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, among many others books, and co-author with David Wengrow of the New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020.

David Wengrow is Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and has been a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of What Makes Civilization? and other books, and co-author with David Graeber of the New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Wengrow has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Africa and the Middle East, and contributed op-eds to The Guardian and The New York Times.