Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James C. Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls high modernism, that centers on confidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with scientific laws. It was …
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James C. Scott critical of a system of beliefs he calls high modernism, that centers on confidence in the ability to design and operate society in accordance with scientific laws. It was released in March 1998, with a paperback version in February 1999. The book catalogues schemes which states impose upon populaces that are convenient for the state since they make societies "legible" but are not necessarily good for the people; census data, standardized weights and measures, and uniform languages make it easier to tax and control the population.
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Seeing Like a State
Hardcover, 446 pages
English language
Published March 29, 1998 by Yale University Press.
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- 978-0-300-07016-3Copied ISBN!
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- 97026556
Seeing Like a State
445 pages
English language
Published April 21, 1998
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- 978-0-300-07815-2Copied ISBN!
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- 20186
James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State (AudiobookFormat, 2018, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio)
Seeing Like a State
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Published May 22, 2018 by Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio.
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- 978-1-5385-5286-5Copied ISBN!
James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State (AudiobookFormat, 2018, Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio)
Seeing Like a State
mp3 cd, 1 pages
Published May 22, 2018 by Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio.
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- 978-1-5385-5287-2Copied ISBN!
Seeing Like a State
445 pages
English language
Published July 27, 2010 by Yale University Press.
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- 978-1-281-72913-2Copied ISBN!
Seeing Like a State
464 pages
English language
Published July 27, 2008 by Yale University Press.
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- 978-0-300-12878-9Copied ISBN!
Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
464 pages
English language
Published July 27, 2020 by Yale University Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-300-24675-9Copied ISBN!
L'oeil de l'État
French language
Published April 21, 2021 by La Découverte.
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- 978-2-348-05735-9Copied ISBN!
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