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Emily in Paris

A Review

Justin Smith-Ruiu
Oct 25, 2020
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In his masterful 2017 book, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, James C. Scott memorably describes the world’s first cities as “multispecies resettlement camps”. The idea is tha…

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