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Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott.

Author/creator Scott, James C.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998.
Descriptionxiv, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Subject(s)
Series The Yale ISPS series
Yale agrarian studies. ^A303919
Contents pt. 1. State projects of legibility and simplification -- ch. 1. Nature and space -- ch. 2. Cities, people, and language -- pt. .2 Transforming visions -- ch. 3. Authoritarian high modernism -- ch. 4. The high-modernist city : an experiment and a critique -- ch. 5. The Revolutionary Party : a plan and a diagnosis -- pt. 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production -- ch. 6. Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams -- ch. 7. Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization -- ch. 8. Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- pt. 4. The missing link -- ch. 9. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : mētis -- ch. 10. Conclusion.
Local noteLittle-307415--305131013276W
Local noteLittle-307415--305131013276W
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 359-434) and index.
LCCN 97026556
ISBN0300070160 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780300070163 (alk. paper)
ISBN0300078153 (pbk)
ISBN9780300078152 (pbk)

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Joyner General Stacks HD87.5 .S365 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold