Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed / / James C. Scott |
Autore | Scott James C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 pages) |
Disciplina | 338.9 |
Collana | Veritas Paperbacks |
Soggetto topico | Central planning - Social aspects |
ISBN | 0-300-25298-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nature and Space -- Chapter 2. Cities, People, and Language -- Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism -- Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique -- Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis -- Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dream -- Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization -- Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity -- Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources for Illustrations -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794199403321 |
Scott James C. | ||
New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2020] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed / / James C. Scott |
Autore | Scott James C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 pages) |
Disciplina | 338.9 |
Collana | Veritas Paperbacks |
Soggetto topico | Central planning - Social aspects |
ISBN | 0-300-25298-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Nature and Space -- Chapter 2. Cities, People, and Language -- Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism -- Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique -- Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis -- Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dream -- Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization -- Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity -- Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources for Illustrations -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816104503321 |
Scott James C. | ||
New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2020] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Seeing like a state [[electronic resource] ] : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / / James C. Scott |
Autore | Scott James C |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.9 |
Collana |
Yale agrarian studies
Yale ISPS series |
Soggetto topico |
Central planning - Social aspects
Social engineering Authoritarianism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786611729134
1-281-72913-2 0-300-12878-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. State projects of legibility and simplification -- pt. 2. Transforming visions -- pt. 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production -- pt. 4. The missing link. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451794403321 |
Scott James C | ||
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / / James C. Scott |
Autore | Scott James C |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.9 |
Collana |
Yale agrarian studies
Yale ISPS series |
Soggetto topico |
Central planning - Social aspects
Social engineering Authoritarianism |
ISBN |
9786611729134
1-281-72913-2 0-300-12878-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. State projects of legibility and simplification -- pt. 2. Transforming visions -- pt. 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production -- pt. 4. The missing link. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777861403321 |
Scott James C | ||
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed / / James C. Scott |
Autore | Scott James C |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (462 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.9 |
Collana |
Yale agrarian studies
Yale ISPS series |
Soggetto topico |
Central planning - Social aspects
Social engineering Authoritarianism |
ISBN |
9786611729134
1-281-72913-2 0-300-12878-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. State projects of legibility and simplification -- pt. 2. Transforming visions -- pt. 3. The social engineering of rural settlement and production -- pt. 4. The missing link. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821221903321 |
Scott James C | ||
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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