James C. Scott

23 books

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

James C. Scott

312 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge by James C. Scott

Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge

Yale ISPS

James C. Scott

310 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative reflective medium-paced
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

James C. Scott

464 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics by James C. Scott

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

James C. Scott

176 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts by James C. Scott

Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts

James C. Scott

269 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia by James C. Scott

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

James C. Scott

254 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative slow-paced
The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy by Bill Winders, James C. Scott

The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy

Bill Winders, James C. Scott

304 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative reflective medium-paced
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

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

James C. Scott

445 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Edward Friedman, Barrington Moore Jr., James C. Scott

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

Edward Friedman, Barrington Moore Jr., James C. Scott

592 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott

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

James C. Scott

198 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics informative slow-paced