Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Title: Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Author: David Graeber ISBN: 9781250858801 Publisher: Picador Paper Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Anthropology 1542726 Publisher Description: 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 by taming our baser instincts. In their major New York Times bestseller, The Dawn of Everything, Da