Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States is a 2017 book by James C. Scott that sets out to undermine what he calls the "standard civilizational narrative" that suggests humans chose to live settled lives based on intensive agriculture because this made people safer and more prosperous. …
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Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States is a 2017 book by James C. Scott that sets out to undermine what he calls the "standard civilizational narrative" that suggests humans chose to live settled lives based on intensive agriculture because this made people safer and more prosperous. Instead, he argues, people had to be forced to live in the early states, which were hierarchical, beset by malnutrition and disease, and often based on slavery. The book has been praised for re-opening some of the biggest questions in human history. A review in Science concludes that the book's thesis "is fascinating and represents an alternative, nuanced, if somewhat speculative, scenario on how civilized society came into being."
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- LibraryThing key:
- 19885467
- Goodreads:
- 34324534
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Against the Grain
Hardcover, 336 pages
English language
Published Aug. 22, 2017 by Yale University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-300-18291-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 990684513
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- 34324534
Die Mühlen der Zivilisation
329 pages
German language
Published Feb. 20, 2020 by Suhrkamp Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-518-29934-0Copied ISBN!
Die Mühlen der Zivilisation
328 pages
German language
Published Feb. 20, 2019 by Suhrkamp Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-518-58729-4Copied ISBN!
Homo Domesticus
302 pages
French language
Published Jan. 3, 2019 by La Découverte.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7071-9923-2Copied ISBN!
Against the grain
English language
Published Feb. 20, 2018 by Yale University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-300-24021-4Copied ISBN!
Homo domesticus
328 pages
French language
Published Jan. 7, 2021 by La Découverte.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-348-06732-7Copied ISBN!
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