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The art of not being governed : an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia

Author: James C Scott
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Series: Yale agrarian studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them - slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an 'anarchist history', is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James C Scott
ISBN: 9780300152289 0300152280 9780300169171 0300169175
OCLC Number: 301948134
Description: xviii, 442 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Hills, Valleys, and States: An Introduction to Zomia --
2. State Space: Zones of Governance and Appropriation --
3. Concentrating Manpower and Grain: Slavery and Irrigated Rice --
4. Civilization and the Unruly --
5. Keeping the State at a Distance: The Peopling of the Hills --
6. State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and Agriculture of Escape --
Orality, Writing, and Texts --
7. Ethnogenesis: A Radical Constructionist Case --
8. Prophets of Renewal --
9. Conclusion.
Series Title: Yale agrarian studies.
Other Titles: Anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia
Responsibility: James C. Scott.

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Challenges us with a radically different approach to history that views events from the perspective of stateless people and redefines state-making as a form of 'internal colonialism'. This book tells  Read more...

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Winner of the 2010 John K. Fairbank Book Prize, given by the American Historical Association--John K. Fairbank Book Prize"American Historical Association (AHA)" (11/01/2010)

 
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