The Dawn of Everything: A New History of… by David Graeber · Audiobook preview
PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEA8VjYWGM The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Authored by David Graeber, David Wengrow Narrated by Malk Williams 0:00 Intro 0:03 1 Farewell to Humanity’s Childhood: Or, why this is not a book about the origins of inequality 10:30 Outro #davidgraeber #thedawnofeverythinganewhistoryofhumanity — GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION Brought to you by Penguin. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike – either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery and civilization itself. Drawing on path–breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we begin to see what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 per cent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter–gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful possibilities than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action. 'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'Boldly ambitious, entertaining and thought–provoking' Observer 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb © David Graeber, David Wengrow 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021 — ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Graeber (Author) David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of, among others, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, and Pirate Enlightenment, and was a contributor to Harper's Magazine, the Guardian, and the Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts helped to make Occupy Wall Street an era–defining movement. He died on 2 September 2020. David Wengrow (Author) David Wengrow is a professor of comparative archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and has been a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of three books, including What Makes Civilization?. Wengrow conducts archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East. — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEA8VjYWGM Language: English Publisher: Allen Lane Published on: October 19, 2021 ISBN: 9780241539903 Duration: 24 hr, 2 min Genres: History / Civilization, History / General, History / Social History, Science / Life Sciences / Evolution, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Science / Archaeology
