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• Publisher : Yale University Press
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• Release Date : 17 March 2020

“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique

• Publisher : Yale University Press
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• Release Date : 09 May 1998

Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not—and cannot—be fully understood.

• Publisher : Yale University Press
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• Release Date : 01 February 1999

Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields.

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 10 March 2014

A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to life James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date,

• Publisher : Yale University Press
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• Release Date : 01 January 2009

From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 03 July 2013

To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek,

• Publisher : Yale University Press
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• Release Date : 01 October 2008

"Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants,

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 09 May 2024

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 24 July 2020

Minor debts, derisive remarks, a fight over a parking space, butting in line—these are the little things that nevertheless account for much of the violence in human society. But

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
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• Release Date : 25 October 2019

The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of the world’s largest democracies – Brazil,