James C. Scott

James C. Scott's books

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

4.21 avg rating — 6,466 ratings

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

4.13 avg rating — 4,576 ratings

Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play

3.97 avg rating — 1,441 ratings

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

4.14 avg rating — 1,348 ratings

Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts

4.23 avg rating — 759 ratings

Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance

4.21 avg rating — 629 ratings

The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia

4.01 avg rating — 356 ratings

In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings

Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics

4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings

Comparative political corruption (Prentice-Hall contemporary comparative politics series)

4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings