The Dawn of Everything
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The Dawn of Everything
| Full title | The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity |
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| Author | David Graeber and David Wengrow |
| Published | 2021 |
| Pages | 704 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Graeber and Wengrow against the standard story of agriculture, cities and inevitable hierarchy — an argument that early societies experimented deliberately with how to be governed. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at SFO — July 2023 (Books photo album)
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A reply to @SpencrGreenberg — named in answer to his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” in a thread on X, June 2025.
Connections
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- David Graeber · Institutions · History · City Building — where this sits in the corpus.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.