Patterns of evolution in rice-growing societies

Our understanding of historical change in non-European societies is hampered less by shortage of information than by the lack of appropriate models. Eurocentric perceptions of economic and technological development have often led to a dismissal of other societies as static. This paper suggests that light may be thrown on processes of historical change characteristic of non-European societies by analysing the technological constraints underlying the evolution of the conditions of production. The specific case is taken of wet-rice economies in East Asia: succeeding levels of technological development are linked to patterns of social and economic change which differ strikingly from the European model

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