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Palgrave Macmillan The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy 1250–1650 Princes Paddy Fields and Bazaars by Ravi Palat
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.