Format:
Online-Ressource (463 p)
ISBN:
9780300078152
Series Statement:
Yale agrarian studies
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification -- Chapter 1. Nature and Space -- Chapter 2 . Cities, People, and Language -- Part 2. Transforming Visions -- Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism -- Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique -- Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis -- Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production -- Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams -- Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization -- Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity -- Part 4. The Missing Link -- Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources for Illustrations -- Index.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1. State Projects of Legibility and Simplification""; ""Chapter 1. Nature and Space""; ""Chapter 2 . Cities, People, and Language""; ""Part 2. Transforming Visions""; ""Chapter 3. Authoritarian High Modernism""; ""Chapter 4. The High-Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique""; ""Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Party: A Plan and a Diagnosis""; ""Part 3. The Social Engineering of Rural Settlement and Production""; ""Chapter 6. Soviet Collectivization, Capitalist Dreams""
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""Chapter 7. Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania: Aesthetics and Miniaturization""""Chapter 8. Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity""; ""Part 4. The Missing Link""; ""Chapter 9. Thin Simplifications and Practical Knowledge: Metis""; ""Chapter 10. Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Sources for Illustrations""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300128789
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300078152
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Language:
English
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