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A reassessment of civilization

James C. Scott: Against the grain: a deep history of the earliest states. Yale University Press, 2017, 336pp HB

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Gale, G. A reassessment of civilization. Metascience 27, 507–511 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0336-9

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