Against the grain a deep history of the earliest states

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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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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 11 september 2018

Aantal pagina's: 336

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: James C. Scott

Hoofduitgeverij: Yale University Press

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 140 mm

Product hoogte: 21.01 cm

Product lengte: 210 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 139 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm

Verpakking lengte: 207 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 598 g

EAN: 9780300240214

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