Author: Charles Francis Keary
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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The Dawn of History: an Introduction to Pre-historic Study
Author: Charles Francis Keary
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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The Dawn of History
Author: Charles Francis Keary
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Humboldt library of science. no. 44 | pt. 1, 1883
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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The Dawn of Everything
Author: David Graeber
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721106
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A 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. For 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, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles 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 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 human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful 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 a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721106
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A 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. For 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, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles 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 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 human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful 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 a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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History of British Folklore
Author: Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415204767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415204767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Class List
Author: Bangor Public Library
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Methods of Teaching History
Author: Granville Stanley Hall
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year...
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Manual of Mythology: Greek and Roman, Norse, and Old German, Hindoo and Egyptian Mythology
Author: Alexander Stuart Murray
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Category : Mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Category : Mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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