The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences
James C. Scott's study of how peasants in Burma and Vietnam judged exploitation by its threat to their subsistence, and why that drove rebellion.
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