The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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Title Page About the Authors By the Same Authors List of Maps and Figures Foreword and Dedication Acknowledgements 1 Farewell to Humanity’s Childhood: Or, why this is not a book about the origins of inequality 2 Wicked Liberty: The indigenous critique and the myth of progress 3 Unfreezing the Ice Age: In and out of chains: the protean possibilities of human politics 4 Free People, the Origin of Cultures, and the Advent of Private Property: (Not necessarily in that order) 5 Many Seasons Ago: Why Canadian foragers kept slaves and their Californian neighbours didn’t; or, the problem with ‘modes of production’ 6 Gardens of Adonis: The revolution that never happened: how Neolithic peoples avoided agriculture 7 The Ecology of Freedom: How farming first hopped, stumbled and bluffed its way around the world 8 Imaginary Cities: Eurasia’s first urbanites – in Mesopotamia, the Indus valley, Ukraine and China – and how they built cities without kings 9 Hiding in Plain Sight: The indigenous origins of social housing and democracy in the Americas 10 Why the State Has No Origin: The humble beginnings of sovereignty, bureaucracy and politics 11 Full Circle: On the historical foundations of the indigenous critique 12 Conclusion: The dawn of everything Notes Bibliography Index Copyright