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

by James C Scott

Recommendations from our site

Other books by James C Scott

Seeing Like a State by James C Scott

Seeing Like a State by James C Scott

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

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Seeing Like a State
by James C Scott

Seeing Like a State
by James C Scott

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)