Our Book of the Week is THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING: A NEW HISTORY OF HUMANITY by David Graeber and David Wengrow. This remarkable book challenges our received narratives of historical determinism and the myths of cultural ‘progress’ devised to justify the status quo. If we unshackle ourselves from these preconceptions and look more closely at the evidence, we find a wide array of ways in which humans have lived with each other, and with the natural world. Many of these could provide templates for new forms of social organisation, and lead us to rethink farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilisation itself.

>>All figured out.

>>Human history gets a rewrite.

>>Collective self-creation. >>Inequality is not the price of civilisation.

>>American anarchist.

>>What other social systems have there been?

>>Lots of really good videos.

>>Articles by Graeber.

>>Graeber's playlist. >>Your copy. >>Other books by David Graeber.