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James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), Chapters 4, 6, 6.5, 7 and Conclusion.
We continued conversations around anti-stadial theories of history, shatter zones, friction, political agency and the objects of history, capture, enclosure, fugitivity and refuge. And whether eating roots is more fun than growing grain.
For those who were unable to join us for discussion of the first chapters, you can catch up on essential points in this 20 -minute recording, in which Scott discusses his thesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwrUsib4vU.

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History and Theory (inactive)
The Mortar, the Pestle, and the Slave Trade: British Pharmacy and Slave Trading in the Eighteenth Century

Carolyn Roberts of Harvard University, 2015-16 Consortium Dissertation Fellow, discussing a chapter of her dissertation at the American Philosophical Society in a seminar of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, moderated by the Director of the McNeil Center, Daniel K. Richter. Philadelphia, October 2015.