James C. Scott: Against the Grain

Cover: 9780300240214 | Against the Grain | A Deep History of the Earliest States | Scott

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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.

Über den Autor

James C. Scott (1936-2024) was Sterling Professor of Political Science and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His previous books include Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Seeing Like a State, and The Art of Not Being Governed.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780300240214
ISBN-10:	030024021X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Scott, James C.
Hersteller:	Yale University Press
Abbildungen:	13 b-w illus.
Maße:	209 x 139 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	James C. Scott
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.07.2018
Gewicht:	0,361 kg

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