James C Scott: 45 books
Decoding Subaltern Politics
Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
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 interesting work on the peasantry and the state, both conceptually and empirically, has never been published in book form....
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative
Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors...
by James C. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
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 twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought...
Two Cheers for Anarchism
Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two...
by James C. Scott
Language: French
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Loin d’être un manifeste dogmatique, ce Petit éloge de l’anarchisme célèbre la faculté d’exercer son jugement moral et sa créativité en toute liberté. À partir d’exemples tirés de la vie quotidienne et de l’histoire, James C. Scott analyse les notions d’autonomie, de dignité,...
by James C. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
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....
Homo Domesticus
Une histoire profonde des premiers États
Language: French
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Servi par une érudition étourdissante, une plume agile et un sens aigu de la formule, Homo domesticus nous offre une synthèse brillante et sans équivalent de l'histoire des premiers États, de la naissance de l'agriculture aux premiers centres urbains, démontant implacablement le grand récit...
反穀：穀物是食糧還是政權工具？人類為農耕社會付出何種代價？一個政治人類學家對國家形成的反思
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Language: Chinese
Release Date: June 27, 2019
★當代最重要的政治人類學家詹姆斯．斯科特全新著作。★顛覆過往對國家與文明成形基本假設，提出今日國家建立的各種想像。★《紐約時報》《衛報》《金融時報》《經濟學人》同聲讚譽！
洪伯邑（國立臺灣大學地理環境資源學系副教授）／專文導讀王驥懋（輔仁大學社會學系助理教授）、宋世祥（國立中山大學人科學位學程助理教授、百工裡的人類學家創辦人）、李明璁（社會學者、作家）、阿潑（轉角國際專欄作者）／專業推薦...
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 1977
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
by Hank Savitch, James C. Clinger, Michael W. Hail
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The cornerstone of the American republic is an educated, active, and engaged citizenry; however, the multifaceted inner workings of government and the political forces that shape it are incredibly complex. Kentucky Government, Politics, and Public Policy is the first book in nearly three decades to...
by Ian C. Scott, James B. Galloway, David L. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2015
Understanding the key components of the diagnosis, assessment and management of inflammatory arthritis patients is essential to improving patient care. This book aims to cover these areas. It places inflammatory arthritis into a historical context; deals with the epidemiology, pathology, clinical...
Water in Kentucky
Natural History, Communities, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Home to sprawling Appalachian forests, rolling prairies, and the longest cave system in the world, Kentucky is among the most ecologically diverse states in the nation. Lakes, rivers, and springs have shaped and nourished life in the Commonwealth for centuries, and water has played a pivotal role...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...