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

By: Scott, James CContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Yale agrarian studies | Yale ISPS seriesPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998Description: xiv, 445 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9780300128789 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Central planning -- Social aspects | Social engineering | AuthoritarianismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.9 LOC classification: HD87.5 | .S365 1998Online resources: Click to View
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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