books by James C. Scott     books:       Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements (The Fundamentalism Project) University Of Chicago Press, 2004 Accounting for Fundamentalisms features treatments of fundamentalist movements, groups that often make headlines but are rarely understood, as part of the multivolume Fundamentalism Project. This book remains a standard reference source for comprehending the dynamics of fundamentalist movements around the world. Surveying fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, the contributors to Accounting ...             Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India2 reviews Ranajit Guha Duke University Press, 1999 a classic Guha's Elementary Aspects--originally published in the early 1980s and then for an audience mainly limited to South Asian studies--is perhaps the most interesting work of social theory since Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish. It is also a model of a new way of writing history "from below." Its implications touch not only history, but also the broad field of postcolonial studies in both ...             Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts5 reviews James C. Scott Yale University Press, 1992 James C. Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance Spanning the entire globe and covering over 1000 years of human history, James C. Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance is an intellectual odyssey into the relatively new field of subaltern studies. It is also an intellectual oasis for historians and general readers of history who have become disillusioned with the traditional historiography of power relations and resistance among ...             Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for ...19 reviews James C. Scott Yale University Press, 1999 Hayek meets Heidegger Brad DeLong's featured review is basically correct - Scott is treading ground remarkably similar to Hayek's. But I don't think that Scott is ignorant of Hayek. Rather, Scott is attempting to explore the same territory, but without coming to the same political conclusions. Early in this book, Scott makes clear that he is not advocating libertarianism (I am told that Scott calls himself an ...             Lonely Planet Mexico55 reviews John Noble, Michele Matter, ... Lonely Planet Publications, 2000 Loved this guide Just got back form Mexico, great guide. Every question I had I found answers for.             The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia2 reviews James C. Scott Yale University Press, 1977 Here's a review that'll never be read.... Honestly, I am enthralled by the work of this man. Writing against the premise that profit maximization is (or should be) the goal of individuals in developing countries, Scott's thesis is that peasant social order is predicated on the fact that the worst-case scenario is starvation. Peasants seek to minimize the risk of this, and as such, to not maximize profits.... which is what the 'West' ...             Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance7 reviews James C. Scott Yale University Press, 1987 Indispensible to anyone interested in social change I picked this book up in order to write my Master's thesis on dissidence and collective action in rural China. The last thing I expected to be was entertained, but most of this book is actually very good and fun reading. True, the other part is highly academic, but still accessible and absolutely essential to understanding the dynamics of change in authoritarian societies. Before Scott ...             Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty Springer, 2005 Edited by two leading authorities in the field, this volume is a technique-oriented "how-to" guide to an increasingly performed procedure, corrective surgery for the failed total knee arthroplasty. This book offers an in-depth, comprehensive approach for orthopedic surgeons, sports medicine specialists, and residents to revision total knee arthroplasty and its complications. More than 350 illustrations ? 60 in full color ? complement detailed ...             Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge Yale University Press, 2001 This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the study of rural society and agriculture. Its ten chapters, selected for their originality and synthesis from the colloquia of the Programme in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, encompass various disciplines, diverse historical periods, and several regions of the world. The contributors' fresh analyses will broaden the perspectives of readers with interests as wide-ranging as ...             The Ithaqua Cycle: The Wind-Walker of the Icy Wastes (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)2 reviews James Ambuehl, Blackwood Algernon, ... Chaosium, Inc., 1999 Also known as the Derleth Cycle If you are reading this right now, you owe August Derleth a debt of gratitude. That is, if you enjoy Lovecraftian fiction, it is probably due to Derleth's efforts to keep it in print and widely read. This is certainly an inestimable service and one for which I appreciate him greatly. His writing is another matter entirely. This collection starts off with one of the best weird stories ...             Los dominados y el arte de la resistencia James C. Scott Ediciones ERA, 2007             Presidents, Parties, and the State: A Party System Perspective on Democratic Regulatory Choice, 1884-1936 Scott C. James Cambridge University Press, 2006 This book challenges dominant theories of regulatory politics by placing presidential elections and national party leaders at the center of American regulatory state development. In the years between 1884 and 1936, the Democratic party abandoned its traditional regulatory agenda to enact the programs of voting blocs deemed pivotal to the consolidation of national party power. Coalition-building imperatives drove the decision-making calculus of ...              search for books 1884-1936, accounting, agrarian, arthroplasty, character, colonial, condition, democratic, dominados, domination, elementary, everyday, fundamentalism, fundamentalisms, institution, insurgency, movements, perspective, presidents, rebellion, regulatory, resistance, resistencia, revision, schemes, southeast, subsistence, synthetic, transcripts, wind-walker books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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