| James C. Scott - Political Science - 1990 - 276 pages
"Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the ... | |
| James C. Scott - Social Science - 2009 - 465 pages
From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length ... | |
| James C. Scott - Political Science - 2008 - 422 pages
Weapons of the Weak is an ethnography by James C. Scott that studies the effects of the Green Revolution in rural Malaysia. One of the main objectives of the study is to make ... | |
| James C. Scott - Business & Economics - 1977 - 256 pages
James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household—subsistence—at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many ... | |
| James C. Scott - Philosophy - 2012 - 200 pages
A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to life James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the ... | |
| James C. Scott - History - 2012 - 178 pages
James C. Scott has researched and written on subaltern groups, and, in particular, peasants, rebellion, resistance, and agriculture, for over 35 years. Yet much of Scott’s most ... | |
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