Seeing like a state [electronic resource] : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott.
By: Scott, James C
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Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Yale agrarian studies: ; Yale ISPS series: Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998Description: xiv, 445 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Central planning -- Social aspects | Social engineering | AuthoritarianismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.9 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.