Introduction, footnote 17, page xxx In fn. 17 p. xxx Tags: Histories and Biographies James C. Scott, Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1998), 13. Lears, Rebirth of a Nation, is a recent and brilliant reinterpretation, but it still embodies much of Wiebes and Chandlers interpretation. Jackson Lears, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (New York: Harper, 2009)