Against the Grain : a Deep History of the Earliest States / James C. Scott.
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations 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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Yale University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Yale Agrarian Studies Series James C. Scott, Series Editor
- Introduction: A Narrative in Tatters: What I Didn't Know
- ONE. The Domestication of Fire, Plants, Animals, and ... Us
- TWO. Landscaping the World: The Domus Complex
- THREE. Zoonoses: A Perfect Epidemiological Storm
- FOUR. Agro-ecology of the Early State
- FIVE. Population Control: Bondage and War
- SIX. Fragility of the Early State: Collapse as Disassembly
- SEVEN. The Golden Age of the Barbarians
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.