The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity
Item details
- ISBN: 9780374157357
- ISBN: 0374157359
- ISBN: 9781250858801
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Physical Description:
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xii, 692 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
Contents / Notes
General Note: | "Originally published in 2021 by Allen Lane, Great Britain"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-673) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 social 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. |
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