The Dawn of Everything
Subtitle: A New History of Humanity
Edition: First american edition
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2021-11-09
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780374157357
Copyright date: 2021
First sentence: Most of human history is irreparably lost to us.
Notes: Source title: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Table of contents: title: Farewell to humanity's childhood, Or, why this is not a book about the origins of inequality --; title: Wicked liberty : The indigenous critique and the myth of progress --; title: Unfreezing the Ice Age : In and out of chains : the protean possibilities of human politics --; title: Free people, the origin of cultures, and the advent of private property (not necessarily in that order) --; title: Many seasons ago : Why Canadian foragers kept slaves and their Californian neighbours didn't ; or, the problem with 'modes of production' --; title: Gardens of Adonis : The revolution that never happened : how Neolithic peoples avoided agriculture --; title: The ecology of freedom : How farming first hopped, stumbled and bluffed its way around the world --; title: Imaginary cities : Eurasia's first urbanites - in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Ukraine and China - and how they built cities without kings --; title: Hiding in plain sight : The indigenous origins of public housing and democracy in the Americas --; title: Why the state has no origin : The humble beginnings of sovereignty, bureaucracy, and politics --; title: Full circle : On the historical foundations of the indigenous critique --; title: The dawn of everything