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A book on the rise of 'the state', based on coercion, from nomadic tribes around 3000 BC in Mesopotamia.

https://astudygroup.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/against-the-grain_-a-deep-histo-james-c-scott.pdf

'The basic narrative of sedentism and agriculture has long survived the
mythology that originally supplied its charter. From Thomas Hobbes to John
Locke to Giambattista Vico to Lewis Henry Morgan to Friedrich Engels to
Herbert Spencer to Oswald Spengler to social Darwinist accounts of social
evolution in general, the sequence of progress from hunting and gathering to
nomadism to agriculture (and from band to village to town to city) was
settled doctrine. Such views nearly mimicked Julius Caesar’s evolutionary
scheme from households to kindreds to tribes to peoples to the state (a people
living under laws), wherein Rome was the apex, with the Celts and then the
Germans ranged behind.

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