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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