Against the grain : : a deep history of the earliest states / / James C. Scott.
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of toda...
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Superior document: | Yale agrarian studies |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Haven, Connecticut : : Yale University Press,, 2017. |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Yale agrarian studies.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (335 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- A narrative in tatters : what I didn't know
- The domestication of fire, plants, animals, and ... us
- Landscaping the world : the domus complex
- Zoonoses : a perfect epidemiological storm
- Agro-ecology of the early state
- Population control : bondage and war
- Fragility of the early state : collapse as disassembly
- The golden age of the barbarians.