Review: ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’

From Review: ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’:

[The authors make] the case that the conventional account of human history as a saga of material progress was developed in reaction to the Indigenous critique in order to salvage the honor of the West. We’re richer, went the logic, so we’re better. The authors ask us to rethink what better might actually mean.

One of the authors, David Graeber, wrote one of my favorite nonfiction books, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, and I can’t wait to get my hands on this one.

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