James C. Scott Primary Author mixed material bibliography Singapore NUS Press 2010 monographic en English

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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. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged NONE9789971694975 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 959 SCO Art 7892 C2O library & collabtive (Non Fiction) 959 SCO Art 51NbhplJ7wL._SX327_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg.jpg 6535 2017-12-20 15:58:12 2017-12-20 16:00:04 machine generated