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.
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.
1. The AMP: Sources and Formation of the Concept 2. The Fate of the AMP from Plekhanov to Stalin 3. The Wittfogel Wateshed 4. The Contempoary Debate on the AMP