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Seeing like a state (Record no. 2116)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780300078152
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
DDC Edition No. 23
Class No. 338.9
Item number SCO
100 1# - FIRST AUTHOR (IF A PERSON)
Name of author Scott, James C.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Seeing like a state
Sub-title how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
Statement of responsibility James C. Scott
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Haven
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Yale University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1998
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
No. of pages xiv, 445 p.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note State projects of legibility and simplification. Nature and space ; Cities, people, and language -- Transforming visions. Authoritarian high modernism ; The high-modernist city : an experiment and a critique ; The Revolutionary Party : a plan and a diagnosis -- The social engineering of rural settlement and production. Soviet collectivization, capitalist dreams ; Compulsory villagization in Tanzania : aesthetics and miniaturization ; Taming nature : an agriculture of legibility and simplicity -- The missing link. Thin simplifications and practical knowledge : mētis ; Conclusion.
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Subject heading Social engineering
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Subject heading Authoritarianism
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Subject heading Central planning
General subdivision Social aspects
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Subject heading Economic development
General subdivision Social aspects
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group Library Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group Library 02/04/2022   338.9 SCO S250 02/04/2022 02/04/2022 Books
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