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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, by James C. Scott

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To see the early states as “population machines” is not far off the mark,
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At this time, population was the scariest resource
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott
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