- Origin, Agriculture and state, Agriculture, History
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?
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Cool, earnest, grave and epic.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- James C. Scott
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Audible Studios on Brilliance, Suhrkamp Verlag, LA DECOUVERTE
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- French, German, English
- ISBN
- 9783518299340
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