The dawn of everything: a New history of humanity By Daid Graeber & David Wengrow

By:

Graeber, David & Wengrow, David

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The international BestsellerPublication details: India: Allen Lane, c2021.Edition: 1Description: i-xii+692P. : illustrations, mapsISBN:

9780241585184

Subject(s):

Civilization -- Philosophy. Social history. World history

DDC classification:

1 901 GRA-D

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	901 GRA-D (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB4141

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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