附註:Originally published: Oxford; New York : Blackwell, 1986. With a new preface
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-247) and index
Chinese dynasties -- Japanese eras. Preface. Eurocentric models of historical change. An alternative model. The significance of a model of development for rice economies -- 1. The rice-plant: diversity and intensification. The origins of Asian rice. Natural characteristics of rice. Selection techniques -- 2. Paths of technical development. Building new fields. Raising yields. Labour productivity and the mechanisation question -- 3. Water control. Water control and institutions: the debate. A technical classification of water control systems. Gravity-fed irrigation networks. Ponds, tanks and reservoirs. Contour canals. 'Creek' irrigation. Pump irrigation schemes. Patterns of growth and change -- 4. Rice and the wider economy. 'Skill-oriented' and 'mechanical' technologies. The specificity of wet-rice agriculture. Uniformity and systemic change. Monoculture and markets. Economic diversification. Petty commodity production and rural industrialisation -- 5. Development. Some basic issues. Labour and capital -- the historical experience: the predominance of labour and the "Japanese model" -- Choice of technological inputs -- Capital investment -- Productivity of labour and capital -- Expertise and participation -- 6. Peasant, landlord and state: changes in relations of production -- Conflict, cooperation and control -- Historical changes in relations of production -- "Feudal" relations and frontier zones -- Smallholder economies: expansion and stagnation -- Egalitarianism or differentiation: the impact of capitalism -- Land and landlessness -- "Land to the tiller" -- Group farming -- Socialist land reform -- Appendix A: The Western model -- Appendix B; The historical experience of China -- Appendix C: The Japanese experience
摘要: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 dynamic of development in Asia's rice economies up to the present day. The comparison of mechanized Western farming methods with the more labor intensive, less environmentally destructive Asian methods is of value to environmentalists and economists concerned with the need for sustainable development. In a new preface, the author reflects upon the increasing relevance of the concerns of the book to international environmental issues
