Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed /

Main Author: Scott, James C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c1998.
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245 1 |a Seeing like a state :  |b how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed /  |c James C. Scott. 
260 1 |a New Haven, CT :  |b Yale University Press,  |c c1998. 
300 1 |a xiv, 445 p. :  |b ill., maps, plans ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-434) and index. 
505 1 |a 1. Nature and space -- 2. Cities, people, and language -- 3. Authoritarian high modernism -- 4. The high-modernist city : an experiment and a critique -- 5. The revolutionary party : a plan and a diagnosis -- 6. Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams -- 7. Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization -- 8. Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- 9. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : mētis -- 10. Conclusion. 
650 1 |a Central planning  |x Social aspects. 
650 1 |a Social engineering 
650 1 |a Authoritarianism 
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