{"product_id":"the-dawn-of-everything-pb","title":"The Dawn of Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An ingenious new look at 'the broad sweep of human history' and many of its 'foundational' stories . . . [Graeber and Wengrow] take a dim view of conventional accounts of the rise of civilizations, emphasize contributions from Indigenous cultures and the missteps of the great Enlightenment thinkers, and draw countless thought-provoking conclusions . . . A fascinating, intellectually challenging big book about big ideas.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e[starred review]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFor generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. In their major \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, David Graeber and David Wengrow fundamentally challenge these assumptions and recast our understanding of human history. We will never again see the past in the same way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, Graeber and Wengrow reveal how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual blinders and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing during all that time? If agriculture and cities did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organizations did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more open to playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDestined to be a classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e signals a paradigm shift, profoundly transforming our understanding of the human past and making space to imagine new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual and political range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and hopefulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Graeber\u003c\/b\u003e was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDebt: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe First 5,000 Years \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e Bullshit Jobs: A Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, among many others books, and coauthor with David Wengrow of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything. \u003c\/i\u003eAn iconic thinker and a renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Graeber; David Wengrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712467751197,"sku":"9781250858801","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250858801.jpg?v=1779469756","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/the-dawn-of-everything-pb","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}