The moral economy of the peasant rebellion and subsistence in Southeast Asia
"James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household -- subsistence -- at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling technical, social, and moral arrangements in peasant society, such as resistance to innovation...
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New Haven, [Connecticut]
Yale University Press
[1976]
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