This massive anthropological and sociological and archeological treatise on the development of human society is as ambitious as that sounds, and for the most part, largely, unbelievably, and altho it bogs down somewhat in certain sections, it succeeds - and succeeds especially in proving some fantastic and crucial points about what our foundational myths get wrong.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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