Ebook: The art of not being governed : an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia
Author: James C Scott
- Series: Yale agrarian studies
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: New Haven
- Language: 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 onRead more...