An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations
James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit
An examination and discussion of the public and the hidden discourses (transcripts) of those who wield power and of those who feign deference to it. Examples are drawn from literature, history and politics to illustrate the many guises the interaction of such discourses can take.
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia have fled the projects of the organized state societies... Læs mere