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"And what a gift it is, no less ambitious a project than its subtitle claims. The Dawn of Everything is written against the conventional account of human social history as first developed by Hobbes and Rousseau; elaborated by subsequent thinkers; popularized today by the likes of Jared Diamond, Yuval Noah Harari, and Steven Pinker; and accepted more or less universally."

If I wanted to write a book against these conventional accounts, like that of Steven Pinker's "The Better Angels of Our Nature", I'd name it something like "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed" or "Against the Grain", or even "Against His-Story, Against Leviathan".

"The Dawn of Everything" is how I would name one more book in a long line of conventional accounts of human social history.