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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Central planning--Social aspects. Social engineering. Authoritarianism.