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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.
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.
12 de ene. de 2023 · 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.
James C. Scott: Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2017, (ISBN 9780300182910) Price $26.00 (hardback). x+312 pages, index
8 de mar. de 2019 · Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. David Baker. Pages 208-212 | Published online: 08 Mar 2019. Cite this article. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2019.1580994. Full Article. Figures & data. Citations. Metrics. Reprints & Permissions. Read this article. Click to increase image size. Additional information.
- David Baker
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24 de jul. de 2018 · An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History as it should be written.”—Barry Cunliffe, Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by expo...
Against the Grain is thus a work of historical revisionism as well as an intellectual manifesto against what Scott believe to be one of the longest-living biases in the social sciences—the identification of civilization with the state and extensive grain farming.
