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The rice economies : technology and development in Asian societies /
Wide-ranging both historically and geographically, The Rice Economies brilliantly addresses a subject of abiding interest to anthropologists, economists, and historians as well as those concerned with development issues and Asian studies. It is the first work to formulate a logical, historical dynam...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London :
University of California Press,
1994
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chinese dynasties x
- Japanese eras xi
- Eurocentric models of historical change 1
- An alternative model 5
- The significance of a model of development for rice economies 5
- 1 The rice-plant: diversity and intensification 8
- The origins of Asian rice 8
- Natural characteristics of rice 11
- Selection techniques 19
- 2 Paths of technical development 27
- Building new fields 28
- Raising yields 42
- Labour productivity and the mechanisation question 54
- 3 Water control 62
- Water control and institutions: the debate 63
- A technical classification of water control systems 68
- Gravity-fed irrigation networks 69
- Ponds, tanks and reservoirs 71
- Contour canals 80
- 'Creek' irrigation 90
- Pump irrigation schemes 100
- Patterns of growth and change 105
- 4 Rice and the wider economy 113
- 'Skill-oriented' and 'mechanical' technologies 113
- The specificity of wet-rice agriculture 116
- Uniformity and systemic change 119
- Monoculture and markets 124
- Economic diversification 131
- Petty commodity production and rural industrialisation 134
- 5 Development 140
- Labour and capital 147
- The historical experience: the predominance of labour and the 'Japanese model' 148
- Choice of technological inputs 155
- Capital investment 158
- Productivity of labour and capital 163
- Expertise and participation 166
- 6 Peasant, landlord and state: changes in relations of production 170
- Conflict, cooperation and control 170
- Historical changes in relations of production 175
- 'Feudal' relations and frontier zones 175
- Smallholder economies: expansion and stagnation 179
- Egalitarianism or differentiation: the impact of capitalism 182
- Land and landlessness 185
- 'Land to the tiller' 190
- Group farming 193
- Socialist land reform 194
- Appendix A The Western model 198
- Appendix B The historical experience of China 203
- Appendix C The Japanese experience 210.