THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC
HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR
POLITICAL WRITING 2022 'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday
Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The
Guardian For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as
primitive and childlike - either free and equal, 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 reaction to
indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong.
In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the
origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery and
civilization itself. Drawing on path-breaking research in
archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes
a far more interesting place once we begin to see what's really
there. If humans did not spend 95 per cent 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 history may be less set in stone,
and more full of playful 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 faith in the power of direct action. 'This is not a
book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb 'The
most profound and exciting book I've read in thirty years' Robin D.
G. Kelley
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