Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by Scott, James C.
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by Scott, James C.

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest...
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Author: James C. Scott
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Language: English
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by Scott, James C.

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

$35.22
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by Scott, James C.

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

$35.22
Author: James C. Scott
Format: MP3 CD
Language: English
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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 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.



Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance
Published: 05/08/2018
Binding Type: MP3 CD
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781978624030

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