LEADER 03203nam 2200505 450 001 9910819977703321 005 20220809203038.0 010 $a0-300-23168-7 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300231687 035 $a(CKB)4970000000107871 035 $a(DE-B1597)540428 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300231687 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6424075 035 $a(OCoLC)1001809990 035 $a(EXLCZ)994970000000107871 100 $a20210313d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAgainst the grain$b[electronic resource] $ea deep history of the earliest states /$fJames C. Scott 210 1$aNew Haven, Connecticut :$cYale University Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) $c13 b-w illus 225 1 $aYale agrarian studies 311 $a0-300-18291-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and index. 327 $aA 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. 330 8 $aAn account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family-all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction. Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the "barbarians" who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples. 410 0$aYale agrarian studies. 606 $aAgriculture$xSocial aspects 606 $aAgriculture and state 606 $aAgriculture$xOrigin 615 0$aAgriculture$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aAgriculture and state. 615 0$aAgriculture$xOrigin. 676 $a900 700 $aScott$b James C.$0148325 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819977703321 996 $aAgainst the grain$91540216 997 $aUNINA