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Disease, Famine, Drudgery, Bondage: A Lively Look at the Birth of the Modern

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Not that kind of bondage. Not that lively a look, sorry.
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A first rate review of James Scott’s "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" by George Scialabba, contributing Editor at The Baffler.

From Inference Magazine:

Great Scott

A  Whiggish history
is a narrative of social or intellectual progress whose terminus is
more or less the social
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