Author(s): James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: More best quality
Contents
Preface
Introduction: A Narrative in Tatters: What I Didn't Know
PARADOXES OF STATE AND CIVILIZATION NARRATIVES
PUTTING THE STATE IN ITS PLACE
THUMBNAIL ITINERARY
1. The Domestication of Fire, Plants, Animals, and... Us
FIRE
CONCENTRATION AND SEDENTISM: A WETLANDS THESIS
WETLANDS AND SEDENTISM
WHY IGNORED?
MINDING THE GAP
WHY PLANT AT ALL?
2. Landscaping the World: The Domus Complex
FROM NEOLITHIC PLANTING TO FLORAL ZOO: CONSEQUENCES OF CULTIVATION
THE DOMUS AS A MODULE OF EVOLUTION
FROM HUNTER'S PREY TO FARMER'S CORRAL
SPECULATION ON HUMAN PARALLELS
THE DOMESTICATION OF US
3. Zoonoses: A Perfect Epidemiological Storm
DRUDGERY AND ITS HISTORY
THE LATE NEOLITHIC MULTISPECIES RESETTLEMENT CAMP: A PERFECT EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STORM
A NOTE ON FERTILITY AND POPULATION
4. Agro-Ecology of the Early State
THE AGRO-GEOGRAPHY OF STATE-MAKING
GRAINS MAKE STATES
WALLS MAKE STATES: PROTECTION AND CONFINEMENT
WRITING MAKES STATES: RECORD KEEPING AND LEGIBILITY
5. Population Control: Bondage and War
THE STATE AND SLAVERY
SLAVERY AND BONDAGE IN MESOPOTAMIA
EGYPT AND CHINA
SLAVERY AS "HUMAN RESOURCES" STRATEGY
BOOTY CAPITALISM AND STATE BUILDING
THE PARTICULARITY OF MESOPOTAMIAN SLAVERY AND BONDAGE
A SPECULATIVE NOTE ON DOMESTICATION, DRUDGERY, AND SLAVERY
6. Fragility of the Early State: Collapse as Disassembly
EARLY STATE MORBIDITY: ACUTE AND CHRONIC
Disease: Hypersedentism, Movement, and the State
Ecocide: Deforestation and Salinization
Politicide: Wars and Exploitation of the Core
PRAISING COLLAPSE
7. The Golden Age of the Barbarians
CIVILIZATIONS AND THEIR BARBARIAN PENUMBRA
BARBARIAN GEOGRAPHY, BARBARIAN ECOLOGY
RAIDING
TRADE ROUTES AND TAXABLE GRAIN CORES
DARK TWINS
A GOLDEN AGE?
Notes
Introduction: A Narrative in Tatters: What I Didn't Know
1. The Domestication of Fire, Plants, Animals, and... Us
2. Landscaping the World: The Domus Complex
3. Zoonoses: A Perfect Epidemiological Storm
4. Agro-Ecology of the Early State
5. Population Control: Bondage and War
6. Fragility of the Early State: Collapse as Disassembly
7. The Golden Age of the Barbarians
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