DAWN OF EVERYTHING : New History of Humanity

By David Graeber . UK Penguin Books 2022 , 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, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, 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 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, then what kinds of 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. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action. 9780141991061

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HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS & HISTORY

By Anuradha Mathur. Jodhpur Book Treasure 2017 , History is a discipline which keeps changing due to reinterpretation over the time. This reinterpretation occurs either due to new theoretical understanding, change in social circumstances or due to the availability of new sources. This makes history a very dynamic discipline. The nature and scope of history writing has been changing rapidly. This change can be seen from positivist history to Marxist history, annals and its agenda for total history, post-modernism and again, there is a return of political history and history of events. That history writing in India has moved considerably over the last fifty years is obvious. From the earlier preoccupation with the history of personalities or the narrative of dynastic changes, history writing has moved on to the analysis of institutions and structures. Economic history has revealed the existence of high levels of agricultural and commercial growth while social history has shown that conflicts between intersecting social classes which were rooted in the distribution and redistribution of this growth. Therefore, instead of viewing history from the top, there is now an increasing awareness of its multi polarities and greater recognition of human agency. Over the last three decades, explorations in some new areas of historical investigations, broadly called history of mentalities or the intersection between cultural practices and economic processes, have widened the scope of historical research. Environmental histories have begun to reveal close links between ecology and ethnicity. 9789384385224

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DAWN OF EVERYTHING : New History of Humanity

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