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Against the Grain

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Against the Grain

By James C. Scott

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About the book

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations 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, pu...Show more

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9780300182910

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2017

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Hardcover

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