Books by David Wengrow
David Wengrow is Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber & David Wengrow
“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.”
Interviews where books by David Wengrow were recommended
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
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Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
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Orwell's Roses
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Things I Have Withheld
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber & David Wengrow
The Best Politics Books: the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, recommended by David Edgerton
The Best Politics Books: the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, recommended by David Edgerton
From the dawn of humanity to the Covid crisis, from a study in power to the plight of the powerless, the Orwell Prize for Political Writing looks for books that break through the mendacities of politics and rise to the challenge of our times, explains historian David Edgerton, chair of this year’s judging panel. He talks us through the ten fabulous books that made the 2022 shortlist.
