“Uncovering the Roots of Civilization: A Review of James C. Scott’s ‘Against the Grain’”

Remember to write for an audience that has not read the McNeill textbook or Scott’s work. The title of the book 
James C. Scott: Against the grain: a deep history of the earliest states: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2017, 312 pp., ISBN 978-0-300-18291-0