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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Ravi Palat is the Professor of Sociology at SUNY Binghamton and previously taught Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii and Sociology at the University of Auckland. Palat is the author of Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim (2004) and the editor of Pacific-Asia and the Future of the World-System .

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Book Title: The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650
Book Subtitle: Princes, Paddy fields, and Bazaars
Authors: Ravi Palat
Series Title: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137562265
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54219-9Published: 12 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56226-5Published: 14 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2730-9703
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9711
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 305
Topics: Asian History, Modern History, Asian Culture, History of South Asia, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Toward a Framework to Debate World History: Bringing South India and the Indian Ocean Back In

Dynamics of Sociohistorical Change in Societies Based on Wet-Rice Cultivation

Global Roots of Local Politics: State Formation in an Eastern Mirror

Commercialism without Capitalism: Labor-intensive Manufacturing and the Growth of Trade

A World-Economy Matures (Circa 1450–1650)

Epilogue: Rethinking Historical Change

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