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

By:

Scott, James C

Contributor(s):

ebrary, Inc

Material type: Book

BookSeries: Yale agrarian studies | Yale ISPS seriesPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998.Description: xiv, 445 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s):

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Electronic books.

DDC classification:

338.9 21

LOC classification:

HD87.5 .S365 1998eb

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Contents:

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-434) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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