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“This book is extraordinarily ambitious. It genuinely is a new history of humanity. One of the most notable things about it is that it wants to free up our political imaginations from being trapped in very particular stories about our prehistorical origins. It is really a very powerful critique of what you might call evolutionary “Just So Stories” about the human fall from grace with the rise of agriculture and stage theories of history more generally. The authors want to say that the human past was much more varied, much more open than archaeologists, anthropologists, political sociologists and philosophers have wanted us to believe. It’s a celebration of human freedom and possibility, based on a reexamination of prehistory, opening up the past to make new futures possible.”
The Best Politics Books of 2022, recommended by David Edgerton
