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29.07.2019
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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.
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Dane bibliograficzne / Bibliographic info
Rodzaj (nośnik) / Type of product
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książka / book
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Dział / Department
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Książki i czasopisma / Books and periodicals
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Autor / Author
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C. Scott James
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Tytuł / Title
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Against the Grain
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Podtytuł / Subtitle
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A Deep History of the Earliest States
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Język / Language
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angielski
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Wydawca / Publisher
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Yale University Press
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Rok wydania / Published in year
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2018
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Rodzaj oprawy / Binding type
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Miękka
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Wymiary / Size
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14.0x21.0
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Liczba stron / Number of pages
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336
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Ciężar / Weight
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0,424 kg
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Wydano / Published on
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01.12.2018
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ISBN
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9780300240214 (9780300240214)
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EAN/UPC
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9780300240214
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Stan produktu / Condition
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nowy / new - sprzedajemy wyłącznie nowe nieużywane produkty
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