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"One of the world's most widely read social scientists" ( New York Times ) offers his most personal and accessible book--a celebration of how ordinary people can resist oppression and injustice James Scott taught us what's wrong with see
James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Informative, enjoyable, and provocative. . . . Scotts [prose] is dry, clear, and scalding wit
James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities o
A splendid study, surely one of the most important that has appeared on the whole matter of power and resistance.Natalie Zemon Davis Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deceptionthe powerless feign deference and the powerful
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 A powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, not to
Splendid. . . .Combines the readability of Akenfield or Pig Earth with an accessible and illuminating theoretical commentary.A. F. Robertson, Times Higher Education Supplement Weapons of the Weak is a brilliant book, combining a sure feel for the subjec
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations An Economist Best History Book 2017 Scott is one of those rare academics whose writing is a thing of
James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Informative, enjoyable, and provocative. . . . Scotts [prose] is dry, clear, and scalding wit
This work is a profound and fundamental contribution to the issues addressed. Sociology Vital to an understanding of peasant politics. Library Journal James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant householdsubsistenceat the center of this st
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 arms length from any organized state society For two thousand years, the disparate groups
"Illuminating and beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."-New Yorker "A magisterial critique of top-down social planning."-Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times "One of the mos