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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Autor Principal: Scott, James C. (Author)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:English
Publicado: New Haven, [Connecticut] Yale University Press [1976]
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