ABSTRACT

This wide-ranging collection of articles, first published in 1981, documents the development of the intellectual and political aspects of the concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production – a concept central to the Western understanding of non-capitalist societies.

chapter |10 pages

General Introduction

ByAnne M. Bailey, Josep R. Llobera

part I|36 pages

The Amp: Sources and Formation of the Concept

part II|2 pages

The Fate of the AMP from Plekhanov to Stalin

chapter |4 pages

Editors’ Introduction

Edited ByAnne M. Bailey, Josep R. Llobera

chapter |5 pages

Our Differences *

Edited ByG. Plekhanov

chapter |13 pages

Civilisation and the Great Historical Rivers *

Edited ByG. Plekhanov

chapter |5 pages

A Letter to the St Petersburg Workers *

Edited ByV.I. Lenin

chapter |19 pages

The Legitimacy of the AMP *

Edited ByL.I. Mad’iar

chapter |2 pages

The Asiatic Bureaucracy as a Class *

Edited ByM.D. Kokin

chapter |2 pages

The AMP and the Class Struggle *

Edited ByE.S. lolk

chapter |7 pages

The Reaffirmation of Unilinealism *

Edited ByM. Godes

chapter |2 pages

Selected Further Readings: Part II

Edited ByAnne M. Bailey, Josep R. Llobera

part III|2 pages

The Wittfogel Watershed

chapter |4 pages

Editors’ Introduction

Edited ByAnne M. Bailey, Josep R. Llobera

chapter |28 pages

The Stages of Development in Chinese Economic and Social History *

Edited ByKarl Wittfogel

chapter |17 pages

The Theory of Oriental Society *

Edited ByKarl Wittfogel

chapter |6 pages

Wittfogel on the Asiatic Mode of Production *

Edited ByGunter Lewin

chapter |4 pages

Wittfogel’s ‘Oriental Despotism’ *

Edited ByArnold Toynbee

chapter |5 pages

Reply to Arnold Toynbee *

Edited ByKarl Wittfogel

chapter |4 pages

Wittfogel’s ‘Oriental Despotism’ *

Edited ByGeorge P. Murdock

chapter |5 pages

‘Oriental Despotism’

Political Weapon or Sociological Concept? *
Edited ByWolfram Eberhard

chapter |13 pages

Wittfogel’s ‘Oriental Despotism’

A Soviet Review *
Edited ByI.A. Levada

chapter |12 pages

Wittfogel’s Irrigation Hypothesis *

Edited ByJulian H. Steward

chapter |9 pages

Hydraulic Society in Ceylon *

Edited ByEdmund Leach

chapter |17 pages

Irrigation

Sociopolitical Dynamics And the Growth of Civilization *
Edited ByBarbara Price

chapter |2 pages

Selected Further Readings: Part III

Edited ByAnne M. Bailey, Josep R. Llobera

part IV|2 pages

The Contemporary Debate on the AMP

chapter |7 pages

Editors’ Introduction

Edited ByAnne M. Bailey, Josep R. Llobera

chapter |7 pages

Problems of Periodisation in Ancient History *

Edited ByElisabeth C. Welskopf

chapter |15 pages

The Asiatic Mode of Production *

Edited ByFerenc Tökei

chapter |14 pages

The Asiatic Mode of Production *

Edited ByMaurice Godelier

chapter |3 pages

The ‘Tributary’ Social Formation *

Edited Byloan Banu

chapter |9 pages

A Contribution To the Study of the AMP

The Case of Ancient Vietnam *
Edited ByLe Thanh Khoi

chapter |11 pages

The Economy of the Inca State and The Notion of the AMP *

Edited ByJürgen Golte

chapter |24 pages

The Ottoman Social Formation *

Edited ByHuri Islamoglu, Caviar Keyder

chapter |10 pages

Principles and Critique of the Asiatic Mode of Production *

Edited ByLawrence Krader

chapter |1 pages

Selected Further Readings: Part IV

Edited ByAnne M. Bailey, Josep R. Llobera

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