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

Автор: Scott James C.
Название: Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
ISBN: 030024021X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300240214
Издательство: Wiley yUP
Цена: 2473.00 р.
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Описание: An Economist Best History Book 2017

"History as it should be written."--Barry Cunliffe, Guardian

"Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civilization and political order."--Walter Scheidel, Financial Times

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this narrative. The first agrarian states, says James C. Scott, were born of accumulations of domestications: first fire, then plants, livestock, subjects of the state, captives, and finally women in the patriarchal family--all of which can be viewed as a way of gaining control over reproduction.

Scott explores why we avoided sedentism and plow agriculture, the advantages of mobile subsistence, the unforeseeable disease epidemics arising from crowding plants, animals, and grain, and why all early states are based on millets and cereal grains and unfree labor. He also discusses the "barbarians" who long evaded state control, as a way of understanding continuing tension between states and nonsubject peoples.

Автор: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Название: Great Gatsby
ISBN: 0007368658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007368655
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age.

Автор: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Название: Tender Is The Night
ISBN: 0007449488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007449484
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 320.00 р.
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Описание: From Collins Classics and the author of `The Great Gatsby` a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale.

Автор: Scott
Название: Ivanhoe
ISBN: 1853262021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853262029
Издательство: Wordsworth
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Описание: Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, this title is packed with incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his daughter Rebecca; Wamba and Gurth, jester and swineherd respectively.

Автор: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Название: This Side of Paradise & Beautiful and Damned
ISBN: 1840226625 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781840226621
Издательство: Wordsworth
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Описание: This Side of Paradise was Fitzgerald`s first novel, and its instant success made him famous. The Beautiful and Damned was Fitzgerald`s second novel, and describes the beginning of what became known as `The Jazz Age`.

Автор: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Название: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
ISBN: 0141190191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141190198
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse.

Автор: Scott
Название: Rob Roy
ISBN: 1853262536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853262531
Издательство: Wordsworth
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Описание: From its first publication in 1816, "Rob Roy" has been recognised as containing some of Scott`s finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters.

Автор: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Название: Last Tycoon
ISBN: 0007574908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007574902
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

Автор: Orson Scott Card
Название: Children Of The Mind (new cover re-issue)
ISBN: 0356501876 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780356501871
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A sequel novel to the science fiction classic ENDER`S GAME - soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield

Автор: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Название: Tales of the Jazz Age
ISBN: 0007925506 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007925506
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From Collins Classics, short stories from the author of `The Great Gatsby` and including `The Curious Case of Benjamin Button`.

Автор: Orson Scott Card
Название: Ender`s Game - film tie-in
ISBN: 0356501884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780356501888
Издательство: Little Brown
Цена: 1213.00 р.
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Автор: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Название: The Great Gatsby (Tiffany Ed) HB
ISBN: 0099577720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099577720
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby`s party. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?This edition of The Great Gatsby is the result of a unique collaboration between Tiffany & Co.

Автор: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Название: Great Gatsby (film)
ISBN: 1447225929 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447225928
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Classic Book This is same book with the 2013 release of a newer version of Great Gatsby now a Major Motion Picture and this book has only one difference and that is the cover