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Against The Grain UC Scott James C. Yale University Press Paperback Softback
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- ISBN-13
- 9780300240214
- ISBN-10
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- Book Title
- Against the Grain
- Title
- Against the Grain
- Genre
- Children & Young Adults
- Topic
- Children & Young Adults
- ISBN
- 9780300240214
- EAN
- 9780300240214
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States
- Item Height
- 209mm
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Item Width
- 143mm
- Subject
- Archaeology, Biology
- Item Weight
- 334g
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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An Economist Best History Book 2017 History as it should be written. -Barry Cunliffe, Guardian Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order. -Walter Scheidel, Financial Times Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family-all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the barbarians who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples.
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Yale University Press
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Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States
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Paperback
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English
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Archaeology, Biology
Publication Year
2018
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Textbook
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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209mm
Item Width
143mm
Item Weight
334g
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