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The Art of Not Being Governed

An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

2009 INDIES Winner
Bronze, Political Science (Adult Nonfiction)

James C. Scott
Yale University Press (September 2009)
Hardcover $35.00 (464pp)
978-0-300-15228-9

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Story of the peoples of Somia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination.

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