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

Download or read book The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650 written by Ravi Palat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.