Against the Grain How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization

Name: Against the Grain How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
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ISBN: 9780865477131

ISBN-10: 0865477132

ISBN-13: 9780865477131

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard Manning

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In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years. The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Richard Manning is the author of Last Stand, A Good House, Grassland, and One Round River. He lives in Montana.



Arousal


Why Agriculture?


Why Agriculture Spread


Hard Times


Modern Times


A Vanguard of Feudalism


To See the Wizard


Why We Are What We Eat


Hog Heaven


A Counteragriculture


I Eat, Therefore I Kill


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index