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Add this copy of At the Dawn of Tyranny: the Origins of Individualism, to cart. $10.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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New York. 1985. May 1985. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark. 0394539222. 16 pages of line drawings. 422 pages. hardcover. Front-of jacket drawing: 'A Human Sacrifice in a Tahitian Temple, ' by Weber, from the Atlas edition of Captain James Cook's Third Voyage. Photograph by Tony Holmes. Jacket design by Gun Larso. keywords: Politics Philosophy. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In this book, Eli Sagan looks for the origins of the political tyranny that has haunted human society through the centuries. He does this by exploring three societies-Hawaii, Tahiti, and Buganda-whose ancient customs and institutions still prevailed when they were first encountered by Western travelers and missionaries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a phenomenon that enables us to see at close hand the world of our own ancient past. Drawing on the accounts of Stanley, Speke, Cook, Mariner, and others, Sagan shows that these cultures, still in a preliterate state usually equated with the primitive, already had complicated social structures, chiefs and kings, complete legal systems with hierarchies of courts, armies, aristocrats, priests, and bards, as well as fishermen and peasants. He proposes that they were in a transitional stage between primitive society and archaic society (literate, fully developed hierarchical states and empires like early Egypt and Mesopotamia). He calls this stage ‘complex' society, and shows that much of what we treasure in our own culture-epic poetry, theater, astronomy, medicine-came into being during this stage, along with much of what troubles us still, such as class, organized warfare, and the tyrannical state. Sagan sees the complex society that the explorers found-at once filled with the exuberance of people discovering life-enhancing arts and sciences and the cruelty of kings who could, in order to pay the gods in advance for their own secure sleep or the safe completion of a temple, sacrifice other human beings-as a source of new questions about the way society develops. inventory #7959.
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N-Fine in N-Fine jacket. Book A square solid tight carefully bread copy. This copy has some light pagedge soil else fine. The priced jacket has some light rubbing wear, light edgewear else fine.