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JAMES C. SCOTT, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv+445. ISBN 0-300-07016-0. £27.50, $37.50 (hardback); 0-300-07815-3. £11.95, $16.95 (paperback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2001

JON AGAR
Affiliation:
University of Manchester

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© 2001 British Society for the History of Science

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