TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palat,Ravi Arvind
TI  - The making of an Indian Ocean world-economy, 1250-1650: princes, paddy fields, bazaars 
T2  - Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies
SN  - 9781137542199 (hbk.)
AV  - HD2072 .P26 2015
U1  - 330.91824 PAL 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan, 
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - India
KW  - Indian Ocean Region
KW  - Social change
KW  - History
KW  - Rice trade
N1  - 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
N2  - "To counter Eurocentric notions of long-term historical change, this book draws upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation; traces inter-state linkages and the growth of commercialization without capitalism; 'industrious revolution' in India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia"--
ER  -