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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

by James C. Scott

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, a

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

312

ISBN

9780300240214