James C. Scott
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Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
$17.95 Add to cart“One of the world’s most widely read social scientists” (New York Times) offers his most personal and accessible book–a celebration of how ordinary people can resist oppression and injustice
James Sc- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 069127178X
- Language: English
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In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings
$28.00 Add to cartJames C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit
“Informative, enjoyable, and provocative. . . . Scott’s [prose] is dry, cle- Series: Yale Agrarian Studies
- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278497
- Language: English
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
$21.95 Add to cart“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”–John Gray, New York Times Book Review
“A powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explana- Series: Veritas Paperbacks
- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300246757
- Language: English
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
$24.00 Add to cartAn Economist Best History Book 2017
“History as it should be written.”–Barry Cunliffe, Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civil- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 030024021X
- Language: English
