Francesca Bray

The Rice Economies (eBook, ePUB)

Technology and Development in Asian Societies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Europe. The Rice Economies, drawing on original source materials, examines patterns of technological and social evolution specific to East-Asian wet-rice economies in order to clarfiy some general historical trends in economic development.

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The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Eur

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kensington Books
• Seitenzahl: 271
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520914933
• Artikelnr.: 67812158

Autorenporträt

Francesca Bray is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Agriculture, Volume VI, part 2 in Joseph Needham's Science and Civilization in China (1984).