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James C. Scott

“A comparable connection between state building and the invention of permanent patronyms exists for fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. As in Tuscany, in England only wealthy aristocratic families tended to have fixed surnames.”

James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas Paperbacks) Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
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