david graeber

‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong [ClimateAndCapitalism.com]

[This post originally appeared on ClimateAndCapitalism.com on December 17, 2021. The Dawn of Everything is available for purchase at LeftWingBooks.net; these reviews and the introductory text are from Monthly Review Online, where this content is mirrored from: https://mronline.org/2021/12/20/the-dawn-of-everything-gets-human-history-wrong/] Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of …

Human History Gets a Rewrite: A Review of “The Dawn of Everything” [The Atlantic]

[This review originally appeared in the November 2021 issue of the The Atlantic. The Dawn of Everything is now available at LeftWingBooks.net] Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working …

The Radical Promise of Human History: A Review of “The Dawn of Everything” [Boston Review]

[This review originally appeared in the Boston Review, November 3, 2021.] The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber and David Wengrow [Available now at LeftWingBooks.net] The standard history of humanity goes something like this. Roughly 300,000 to 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens first evolved somewhere on …

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

The Dawn of Everything is now available at LeftWingBooks.net NATIONAL BESTSELLER,NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture …