The making of an Indian Ocean world-economy, 1250-1650 : princes, paddy fields, bazaars / Ravi Palat.
Material type: TextSeries: Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studiesPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.Description: xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781137542199 (hbk.)
- 330.91824 PAL 23 008615
- HD2072 .P26 2015
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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, 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"--
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