Seeing Like a State
- Authors
- Scott, James C.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Tags
- politics , history , philosophy , sociology
- ISBN
- 9780300070163
- Date
- 1998-03-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 5.60 MB
- Lang
- en
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?