The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650 [electronic resource] : Princes, Paddy fields, and Bazaars /
Palat, Ravi.author.
To counter Eurocentric notions of long-term historical change, Wet Rice Cultivation and the Emergence of the Indian Ocean draws upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation and traces inter-state linkages and the growth of commercialization without capitalism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Towards a framework to debate world history: bringing South India and the Indian Ocean back in -- A stylized model of socio-historical change in societies based on wet-rice cultivation -- Regional variations -- European intrusion -- Theoretical implications -- Plan of the work -- Dynamics of socio-historical change in societies based on wet-rice cultivation -- Natural characteristics of wet-rice cultivation -- Changing patterns of agrarian relations in the Tamil country -- Long-term social change in wet-rice growing societies -- Global roots of local politics: state formation in an Eastern mirror -- Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- New technologies of rule: a Tamil case study -- State formation in an Eastern mirror -- Commercialism without capitalism: labor-intensive manufacturing, and the growth of trade -- Commodity production and the expanding circuits of exchange -- Industrious revolution -- Theoretical reprise -- A world-economy matures -- Trade revival in the fifteenth century -- The Lusitanian interlude -- A trade revolution? -- A world transformed -- Rethinking historical change.
To counter Eurocentric notions of long-term historical change, Wet Rice Cultivation and the Emergence of the Indian Ocean draws upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation and traces inter-state linkages and the growth of commercialization without capitalism.
Asia—History.
History, Modern.
Ethnology—Asia.
World history.
Social history.
Asian History.
Modern History.
Asian Culture.
History of South Asia.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Social History.