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Chinese Dynasties -- Japanese Eras -- Eurocentric Models Of Historical Change -- An Alternative Model -- The Significance Of A Model Of Development For Rice Economies -- The Rice-plant: Diversity And Intensification -- The Origins Of Asian Rice -- Natural Characteristics Of Rice -- Selection Techniques -- Paths Of Technical Development -- Building New Fields -- Raising Yields -- Labour Productivity And The Mechanisation Question -- 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 -- 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 -- Development -- 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

Author

Francesca Bray

Publisher

Basil Blackwell

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780631169437

Subjects

Economics, Management, Agriculture