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The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650

Princes, Paddy fields, and Bazaars

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  • © 2015

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  1. Ravi Palat
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (IOWS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Toward a Framework to Debate World History: Bringing South India and the Indian Ocean Back In

    • Ravi Palat
    Pages 1-31

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

    • Ravi Palat
    Pages 33-67

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

    • Ravi Palat
    Pages 69-115

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

    • Ravi Palat
    Pages 117-149

  6. A World-Economy Matures (Circa 1450–1650)

    • Ravi Palat
    Pages 151-211

  7. Epilogue: Rethinking Historical Change

    • Ravi Palat
    Pages 213-223

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 225-305
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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.

About the author

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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