Against the Grain
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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.
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Scott James C. ,
Yale University Press
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Scott James C.,
Yale University Press
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