Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott.
1998
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Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
Description
xiv, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series
Yale agrarian studies.
Yale ISPS series.
Yale ISPS series.
Formatted Contents Note
pt. 1. State projects of legibility and simplification
pt. 2. Transforming visions
pt. 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production
pt. 4. The missing link.
pt. 2. Transforming visions
pt. 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production
pt. 4. The missing link.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-434) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0300070160 cloth alkaline paper
0300078153 paperback alkaline paper
9780300078152
9780300128789
0300078153 paperback alkaline paper
9780300078152
9780300128789
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