Against the Grain
Workby James C. Scott · 2017
Heard in 2 episodes across 2 shows since Sep 2026
In this 2017 book, James C. Scott challenges the conventional narrative that settled agriculture and early states emerged because they offered safer, more prosperous lives. Drawing on research about domestication, sedentism, and state formation, he argues that early states were hierarchical societies often marked by malnutrition, disease, coercion, and slavery.
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