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Author	Scott, James C.
Title	Against the grain : a deep history of the earliest states / James C. Scott.
Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
	©2017

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 11	630.9 S	IN LIBRARY

Description	xvii, 312 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Series	Yale agrarian studies
	Yale agrarian studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and index.
Contents	A narrative in tatters : what I didn't know -- The domestication of fire, plants, animals, and... us -- Landscaping the world : the domus complex -- Zoonoses : a perfect epidemiological storm -- Agro-ecology of the early state -- Population control : bondage and war -- Fragility of the early state : collapse as disassembly -- The golden age of the barbarians.
Subject	Agriculture -- Origin.
	Agriculture and state -- History.
	Agriculture -- Social aspects -- History.
Added Author	New York Society Library. Book Committee. 2017. ZNS
Added Title	Deep history of the earliest states
ISBN	9780300182910 (hardcover)
	0300182910 (hardcover)

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