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Against the grain : a deep history of the earliest states /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, James C.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
Subjects:
Agriculture > Origin.
Agriculture and state > History.
Agriculture > Social aspects > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.