books by Professor James C. Scott (subsistence transcripts recovering)

books by Professor James C. Scott

books:

Recovering the Margins of American Religious History: The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr. (Religion & ...

University Alabama Press, 2012

Recovering the Margins of American Religious History , a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell’s colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American religious studies. Raised in an upper-class family in mid-twentieth-century Jacksonville, Florida, Harrell’s membership in the Church of Christ helped establish his sense of self as a spiritual ...

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
Professor James C. Scott

Yale University Press, 2010

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 state-making whose author ...

Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
Professor James C. Scott

Yale University Press, 1992

Confrontations between the powerless and the powerful are laden with deception - the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, labourers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful ...

The Woodland Southeast

University Alabama Press, 2002

This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing ...

Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
Professor James C. Scott

Yale University Press, 1987

The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
Professor James C. Scott

Yale University Press, 1977

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for ...
Professor James C. Scott

Yale University Press, 1998

Compulsory "ujamaa" villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics - the 20th century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In this wide-ranging book, James ...

The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
Bill Winders

Yale University Press, 2012

This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they have affected the formulation and application of agricultural policy decisions since the New Deal, showing how divisions and coalitions within Southern, Corn Belt, and Wheat Belt agriculture were ...

Primate Psychology

Harvard University Press, 2003

In more ways than we may sometimes care to acknowledge, the human being is just another primate--it is certainly only very rarely that researchers into cognition, emotion, personality, and behavior in our species and in other primates come together to compare notes and share insights. This book, one of the few comprehensive attempts at integrating behavioral research into human and nonhuman primates, does precisely that--and in doing so, offers ...

Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

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 ...

Hoa Lo/Hanoi Hilton Stories Commemorative Edition (Southeast Asia Studies Monograph, 57)
Nguyen Chi Thien

Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2008

The Hoa Lo/Hanoi Hilton Stores by the Vietnamese dissident poet Nguyen Chi Thien are written from his experience at the Hanoi Central Prison -- the infamous Hanoi Hilton -- where he spent six of a total of twenty-seven years in the Vietnamese gulag for the offense of writing poetry against the Communist regime. His poems were created in his memory, because Nguyen Chi Thien was not allowed pen or paper by the Communist regime of North Vietnam. ...