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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. |
Abstract:
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 the story of the people of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination.
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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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