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

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It would be difficult to imagine the first elaborate social stratification in the earliest states without war-captive slaves at the bottom and elite embellishment, dependent on those slaves, at the top.
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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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