LEADER 02715nam 22004455 450 001 9910794199403321 005 20230126222331.0 010 $a0-300-25298-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300252989 035 $a(CKB)4100000010555463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6125963 035 $a(DE-B1597)550895 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300252989 035 $a(OCoLC)1143623403 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010555463 100 $a20200526h20202020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSeeing Like a State $eHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed /$fJames C. Scott 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (462 pages) 225 0 $aVeritas Paperbacks 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-300-24675-7 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Nature and Space -- $tChapter 2. Cities, People, and Language -- $tChapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism -- $tChapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique -- $tChapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis -- $tChapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dream -- $tChapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization -- $tChapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity -- $tChapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis -- $tChapter 10. Conclusion -- $tNotes -- $tSources for Illustrations -- $tIndex 330 $a?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 of top-down social planning? by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail?sometimes catastrophically?in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters.   ?Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.??New Yorker   ?A tour de force.?? Charles Tilly, Columbia University 606 $aCentral planning$xSocial aspects 615 0$aCentral planning$xSocial aspects. 676 $a338.9 700 $aScott$b James C., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0148325 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794199403321 996 $aSeeing like a State$91553502 997 $aUNINA