Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Book by James C. Scott
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Against the grain is a book chock full of new ideas about the evolution of early states. The old ideas we have about states are often wrong or simply ...
Instead, he argues, people had to be forced to live in the early states, which were hierarchical, beset by malnutrition and disease, and often based on slavery.
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A Deep History of the Earliest States · Paperback · 9780300240214 · Published: Tuesday, 24 Jul 2018.
Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding ...
They covered the history of domestications and the agrarian structure of the earliest states. Although they had gradually evolved,. I was aware that they were ...
Oct 30, 2017 · Against the Grain focuses on Mesopotamia to overturn the dominant narrative of the state's rise. According to this, the domestication of plants ...
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Aug 22, 2017 · Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising ...
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Against the Grain A Deep History of the Earliest States ... Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and ...
This novel ecological and social complex became the template for virtually all of our species' recorded history. Vastly amplified by population growth, water ...
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Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding ...