The Dawn of Everything
Subtitle: A New History of Humanity
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Format: E-Book
ISBN-13: 9780241402450
Copyright date: 2021
First sentence: Most of human history is irreparably lost to us.
Table of contents: title: Title Page; title: About the Authors; title: By the Same Authors; title: List of Maps and Figures; title: Foreword and Dedication; title: Acknowledgements; title: 1 Farewell to Humanity’s Childhood: Or, why this is not a book about the origins of inequality; title: 2 Wicked Liberty: The indigenous critique and the myth of progress; title: 3 Unfreezing the Ice Age: In and out of chains: the protean possibilities of human politics; title: 4 Free People, the Origin of Cultures, and the Advent of Private Property: (Not necessarily in that order); title: 5 Many Seasons Ago: Why Canadian foragers kept slaves and their Californian neighbours didn’t; or, the problem with ‘modes of production’; title: 6 Gardens of Adonis: The revolution that never happened: how Neolithic peoples avoided agriculture; title: 7 The Ecology of Freedom: How farming first hopped, stumbled and bluffed its way around the world; title: 8 Imaginary Cities: Eurasia’s first urbanites – in Mesopotamia, the Indus valley, Ukraine and China – and how they built cities without kings; title: 9 Hiding in Plain Sight: The indigenous origins of social housing and democracy in the Americas; title: 10 Why the State Has No Origin: The humble beginnings of sovereignty, bureaucracy and politics; title: 11 Full Circle: On the historical foundations of the indigenous critique; title: 12 Conclusion: The dawn of everything; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: Copyright