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03131aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 EB8A752E939111E7A673E95E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170907010029 008 170619s2017 ctua 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0300182910 020 $a 9780300182910 035 $a (OCoLC)990684513 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $e rda $d IOG $d OCLCO $d ZQP $d GSU $d SILO 050 14 $a HN8 S387 2017 100 1 $a Scott, James C. 245 10 $a Against the grain : $b a deep history of the earliest states / $c James C. Scott. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xvii, 312 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Yale agrarian studies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 8 $a An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative 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. 650 0 $a Agriculture and state $x History. 830 0 $a Yale agrarian studies. 941 $a 11 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724073946.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020023913.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909045546.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220602014140.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220105010415.0 952 $l N2AX314 $d 20210728020927.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20190523010023.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006111915.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20180524044754.0 952 $l SPPE104 $d 20180309011310.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20171104011222.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EB8A752E939111E7A673E95E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search