David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Talebįor generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. 'Boldly ambitious, entertaining and thought-provoking' Observer 'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times
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