The Agrarian Studies Series at Yale University Press seeks to publish outstanding and original interdisciplinary work on agriculture and rural society—for any period, in any location. Works of daring that question existing paradigms and fill abstract categories with the lived experience of rural people are especially encouraged.
—James C. Scott, Series Editor
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Steve Striffler, Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food
James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
Timothy Pachirat, Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
Edward Dallam Melillo, Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection
Kathryn M. de Luna, Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa
James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Loka Ashwood, For-Profit Democracy: Why the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America
Jonah Steinberg, A Garland of Bones: Child Runaways in India
Hannah Holleman, Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism
Johnhenry Gonzalez, Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti
Christian C. Lentz, Contested Territory: Điện Biên Phủ and the Making of Northwest Vietnam
Dan Allosso, Peppermint Kings: A Rural American History
Jamie Kreiner, Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
Christian Lund, Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia
Shaila Seshia Galvin, Becoming Organic: Nature and Agriculture in the Indian Himalaya
Michael Dove, Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness
Japhy Wilson, Reality of Dreams: Post-Neoliberal Utopias in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Aniket Aga, Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India
Ruth Mostern, The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
Brian Lander, The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire
For a complete list of titles in the Yale Agrarian Studies Series, visit yalebooks.com/agrarian.