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100 1 _aGraeber, David,
_eauthor.
_949705
245 1 4 _aThe dawn of everything :
_ba new history of humanity /
_cDavid Graeber and David Wengrow.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bAllen Lane,
_c2021.
300 _axii, 691 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aFarewell 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.
520 _a"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"--
526 _aESS
650 0 _aCivilization
_xPhilosophy.
_949706
650 0 _aSocial history.
_949707
650 0 _aWorld history.
_949708
700 1 _aWengrow, D.,
_eauthor.
_949709
852 _aAyesha Abed Library
_cGeneral Stacks
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