“Is a River Alive?” by Robert Macfarlane, W.W. Norton, 384 pages, and “In Praise of Floods” by James C. Scott, Yale University Press, 248 pages. I’ve thought a lot about rivers these past two years, ...
In Praise of Floods, the final published work by the late Yale political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott, is a fleet, searching book, with the laudable ambition to change people’s minds ...
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‘In Praise of Floods’ Review: Let the River Run
Government and civilization, the political scientist James C. Scott stressed, are not at all the same thing. In wide-ranging studies of how central authority is applied at ground level, Scott ...
A narrative in tatters : what I didn't know -- The domestication of fire, plants, animals, and... us -- Landscaping the world : the domus complex -- Zoonoses : a perfect epidemiological storm -- ...
"James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household -- subsistence -- at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling ...
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