Scott, James C.

Seeing like a state how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / [electronic resource] : James C. Scott. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998. - xiv, 445 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - Yale agrarian studies Yale ISPS series . - Yale agrarian studies. Yale ISPS series. .

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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Central planning--Social aspects.
Social engineering.
Authoritarianism.


Electronic books.

HD87.5 / .S365 1998eb

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