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Seeing Like a StateHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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Seeing Like. State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, by James C. Scott, Yale University Press, 1998.
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- Authors
- West, H. G.
- Venue
- PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1998-11
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 127-131
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- 1081-6976 (ISSN-L)
- 1555-2934
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- W1851537601
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- en
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