The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity / David Graeber and David Wengrow

• VerfasserIn: Graeber, David 1961-2020; Wengrow, David 1972-
• Place / Publishing House: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2021]; © 2021
• Rok wydania: 2021
• Wydanie: First American edition
• Język: English
• Opis fizyczny: xii, 692 Seiten; Karten
• Komentarze: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 611-673; Index Seite 675-692

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

"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"--