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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St) - James C. Scott
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
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Format: kindle
ISBN: 9780300128789
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 468
Edition language: English
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Non Fiction, History, Academic, Economics, Politics, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Theory
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“Nomads and pastoralists…hunter-gatherers, Gypsies, vagrants, homeless people, itinerants, runaway slaves, and serfs have always been a thorn in the side of states,” says Scott. (1998, 1) Premodern states, Scott continues, had great difficulty “seeing” their people, and this interfered with “the c...
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Seeing like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Yale ISPS Series) - James C. Scott
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - James C. Scott
Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed - James C. Scott
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - James C. Scott
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