What to Read After Weapons of the Weak
Readers who loved Weapons of the Weak by James C. Scott keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Weapons of the Weak is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Weapons of the Weak
Under three flags
Power politics and culture
States and social revolutions
The Land Remembers
Making globalization work
Oligarchy
Capitalism and modern social theory
Islam Observed
The religion of Java
Five families
Building peace
Kicking away the ladder
Nation and Nationalism
Banal nationalism
Ethnic groups in conflict
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1990
Moral education
Citizen and Subject
Power
Why civil resistance works
Waging Nonviolent Struggle
Activists Beyond Borders
Rural development
Sidewalk