SCOTT, JAMES C. - Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest StatesNew Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300182910. Mark on front page edges, DJ is lightly shelf soiled. Underlining of text in first section of book. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; '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". Very Good in Very Good dust jacket . USD 22.50 [Appr.: EURO 21 | CHF 20.5] N°. du livre 21436vous est proposé par:
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