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UNINA9910798729703321 |
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Autore |
Kelly Robert L. <1957-> |
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The Fifth Beginning : What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future / / Robert L. Kelly |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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9780520966369 |
0520966368 |
9780520293120 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (149 pages) : map |
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Civilization |
Culture |
Social history |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The End of the World as We Know It -- 2. How Archaeologists Think -- 3. Sticks and Stones: The Beginning of Technology -- 4. Beads and Stories: The Beginning of Culture -- 5. Bread and Beer: The Beginning of Agriculture -- 6. Kings and Chains: The Beginning of the State -- 7. Nothing Lasts Forever: The Fifth Beginning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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"I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity. In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot points in the six-million-year history of human development: the emergence of technology, culture, agriculture, and the state. In each example, the author examines the long-term processes that resulted in a definitive, no-turning-back change for the organization of society. Kelly then looks ahead, giving us evidence for what he calls a fifth beginning, one that started about AD 1500. Some might call it "globalization," but the author places it in its larger context: a five-thousand-year arms race, capitalism's global reach, and |
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the cultural effects of a worldwide communication network. Kelly predicts that the emergent phenomena of this fifth beginning will include the end of war as a viable way to resolve disputes, the end of capitalism as we know it, the widespread shift toward world citizenship, and the rise of forms of cooperation that will end the near-sacred status of nation-states. It's the end of life as we have known it. However, the author is cautiously optimistic: he dwells not on the coming chaos, but on humanity's great potential. |
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UNINA9910586573003321 |
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Autore |
Firth Rhiannon |
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Titolo |
Disaster Anarchy : Mutual Aid and Radical Action |
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London : , : Pluto Press, , 2022 |
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©2022 |
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9781786807939 |
1786807939 |
9781786807922 |
1786807920 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 pages) |
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Emergency management |
Anarchists |
Disaster relief |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Interviewees -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Backdrop: Mainstream Disaster Studies -- 3 Critical Approaches: Precarity, Securitisation and Disaster Capitalism -- 4 Towards an Anarchist Approach to Disaster -- 5 Occupy Sandy Mutual Aid, New York, 2012 -- 6 Covid-19 Mutual Aid, London, 2020 -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Index. |
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As disasters become more commonplace, we need to think of |
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