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100	1		_aScott, James C. _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut _e1
245	1	0	_aAgainst the Grain : _bA Deep History of the Earliest States / _cJames C. Scott.
260			_aNew Haven, CT : _bYale University Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource (336 pages) : _b13 b-w illustrations.
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _tYale Agrarian Studies Series James C. Scott, Series Editor -- _tIntroduction: A Narrative in Tatters: What I Didn't Know -- _tONE. The Domestication of Fire, Plants, Animals, and . . . Us -- _tTWO. Landscaping the World: The Domus Complex -- _tTHREE. Zoonoses: A Perfect Epidemiological Storm -- _tFOUR. Agro-ecology of the Early State -- _tFIVE. Population Control: Bondage and War -- _tSIX. Fragility of the Early State: Collapse as Disassembly -- _tSEVEN. The Golden Age of the Barbarians -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
520	0		_aAn 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, 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.
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650		0	_aAgriculture and state _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2703899&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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