Against The Grain: A Deep History Of Earliest States James C Scott Yale University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Archaeology

An Economist Best History Book 2017 “History As It Should Be Written ”—Barry Cunliffe Guardian “Scott Hits The Nail Squarely On Head By Exposing Staggering Price Our Ancestors Paid For Civilization And Political Order ”—Walter Scheidel Financial Times Why Did Humans Abandon Hunting Gathering Sedentary Communities Dependent Livestock Cereal Grains Governed Precursors Of Today’s States? Most People Believe That Plant Animal Domestication Allowed Finally To Settle Down Form Agricultural Villages Towns States Which Made Possible Law Public A Presumably Secure Way Living But Archaeological Historical Evidence Challenges This Narrative First Agrarian Says James C Scott Were Born Accumulations Domestications: Fire Then Plants Subjects State Captives Women In Patriarchal Family—All Can Viewed Gaining Control Over Reproduction Explores We Avoided Sedentism Plow Agriculture Advantages Mobile Subsistence Unforeseeable Disease Epidemics Arising From Crowding Animals Grain All Early Are Based Millets Unfree Labor He Also Discusses “Barbarians” Who Long Evaded Understanding Continuing Tension Between Nonsubject Peoples Σελίδες: 336 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0911 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm