The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy 1250-1650 : Princes, Paddy Fields, and Bazaars (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)

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.