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Archaeological Perspectives on Scott's Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

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James C.Scott, Against the Grain: A deep history of the earliest states, 2017. London/New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18291-0, $26.00, xvii + 312 pp., 13 figures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2019

Thomas P. Leppard
Thomas P. Leppard*
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Department of AnthropologyFlorida State UniversityJohnson Building 2035 E. Paul Dirac Drive Tallahassee, FL 32310USA Email: tleppard@fsu.edu
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James C. Scott's Against the Grain has immense relevance for how archaeologists view the dynamics of early states and complex polities. In this volume, Scott—already established as a leading theorist of states and statecraft (e.g. Scott 1997; 2009)—brings his analytic power and capacity to turn a phrase to bear on the topic of the ‘earliest states’.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 691 - 692
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Copyright © McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2019 

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