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Author Scott, James C., author.
Title Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / James C. Scott.
Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998]
Copyright date ©1998


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Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Descript polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
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Note "The Institution for Social and Political Studies at Yale University."
Contents Nature and space -- Cities, people, and language -- Authoritarian high modernism -- The high-modernist city: an experiment and a critique -- The Revolutionary Party: a plan and a diagnosis -- Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams -- Compulsory villagization in Tanzania: aesthetics and miniaturization -- Taming nature: an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- Thin simplifications and practical knowledge: mētis -- Conclusion.
Note English.
ISBN 9780300128789 (electronic bk.)
0300128789 (electronic bk.)
9786611729134
6611729135
1281729132
9781281729132
9780300070163 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300070160 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300078152 (paperback ; alk. paper)
0300078153 (paperback ; alk. paper)
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Author Scott, James C., author.
Series Yale agrarian studies
Yale ISPS series
Yale agrarian studies.
Yale ISPS series.
Subject Central planning -- Social aspects.
Social engineering.
Authoritarianism.
Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations, maps
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
data file
Note "The Institution for Social and Political Studies at Yale University."
Contents Nature and space -- Cities, people, and language -- Authoritarian high modernism -- The high-modernist city: an experiment and a critique -- The Revolutionary Party: a plan and a diagnosis -- Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams -- Compulsory villagization in Tanzania: aesthetics and miniaturization -- Taming nature: an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- Thin simplifications and practical knowledge: mētis -- Conclusion.
Note English.
ISBN 9780300128789 (electronic bk.)
0300128789 (electronic bk.)
9786611729134
6611729135
1281729132
9781281729132
9780300070163 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300070160 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300078152 (paperback ; alk. paper)
0300078153 (paperback ; alk. paper)
Author Scott, James C., author.
Series Yale agrarian studies
Yale ISPS series
Yale agrarian studies.
Yale ISPS series.
Subject Central planning -- Social aspects.
Social engineering.
Authoritarianism.

Subject Central planning -- Social aspects.
Social engineering.
Authoritarianism.
Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 445 pages) : illustrations, maps
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
data file
Note "The Institution for Social and Political Studies at Yale University."
Contents Nature and space -- Cities, people, and language -- Authoritarian high modernism -- The high-modernist city: an experiment and a critique -- The Revolutionary Party: a plan and a diagnosis -- Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams -- Compulsory villagization in Tanzania: aesthetics and miniaturization -- Taming nature: an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- Thin simplifications and practical knowledge: mētis -- Conclusion.
Note English.
ISBN 9780300128789 (electronic bk.)
0300128789 (electronic bk.)
9786611729134
6611729135
1281729132
9781281729132
9780300070163 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300070160 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300078152 (paperback ; alk. paper)
0300078153 (paperback ; alk. paper)
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