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    <title>Seeing Like a State</title>
    <subTitle>How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed</subTitle>
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    <publisher>Yale University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1998</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>James C. Scott analyzes diverse failures in high-modernist, authoritarian state planning - collectivization in Russia, the building of Brasilia, compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, and others - and uncovers conditions common to all such planning disasters.</abstract>
  <note>п/15974</note>
  <note>+Maps,</note>
  <note>+Photos,</note>
  <note>+ill.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>cities</topic>
    <topic>production</topic>
    <topic>Tanzania</topic>
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      <title>The Yale ISPS Series</title>
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