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reviewed Against the Grain by James C. Scott (Yale agrarian studies series)

James C. Scott: Against the Grain (2017, Yale University Press) 4 stars

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal …

Completely challenges the statist civilisational narrative

5 stars

Wonderful book.

This is what science is about, challenging longheld beliefs, criticsing the previously uncriticisable.