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100 1  Scott, James C. 
245 10 Against the grain :|ba deep history of the earliest states
       /|cJames C. Scott 
264  1 New Haven :|bYale University Press,|c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    xvii, 312 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Yale agrarian studies,|x99-1857033-4 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520 8  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 
648  7 Forntiden|2sao 
650  0 Agriculture and state|xHistory 
650  0 Hunting and gathering societies 
650  7 Jägare/samlare|2sao 
650  7 Jordbruk|xsociala aspekter|xhistoria|2sao 
650  7 Jordbrukspolitik|xhistoria|2sao 
830  0 Yale agrarian studies,|x99-1857033-4 
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