Book
The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity / David Graeber and David Wengrow.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374157357
- ISBN: 0374157359
- ISBN: 9780374157357 : HRD
- ISBN: 0374157359 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780374157357
- ISBN: 0374157359
- Physical Description: xii, 692 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references 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 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. |
| Summary, etc.: | "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"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Civilization > Philosophy. Social history. World history. |
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- 28 of 32 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Easton Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Easton Public Library | 901 GRAEBER, DAVID (Text) | 37777123609133 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 901 GRAEBER, D. (Text) | 32544072768657 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | 901 GRA (Text) | 34030150550231 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | 901/GRAEBER (Text) | 34029153300339 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | 901 GRA (Text) | 34014150743723 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | 901 Gra (Text) | 33180141828476 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Deep River Public Library | 901 Grae (Text) | 36039001230131 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Derby Neck Library | 901 GRA (Text) | 34046152834522 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Douglas Library - North Canaan | 901 GRA (Text) | 33490141836795 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Douglas Library of Hebron | 901 GRA (Text) | 33400148852505 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
